# Migration Tool for NetWare…

Is used to migrate NetWare

1. users,
2. groups,
3. selected files and directories,
4. and rights on files and directories (security)

to Windows NT domains.

Migration tool for NetWare will not migrate:

- User passwords
- Logon Scripts
- Print server and Print Queue information

- Workgroup and User Account Managers for NetWare. (not often used)
- Leaves the NetWare server intact. It only copies information to the NT server.
- Can migrate several NetWare file servers to a single NT domain controller or member server.

Prerequisites for using NWCONV.EXE

:

- If you are transferring users and/or groups, the NT server must be a PDC
- If you are transferring directory and file information, the NT server can also be a member server or a domain controller.
- Must have supervisory rights (Netware 3.x or 3.x) or Admin rights (NetWare 4.x) on the NetWare server.
- Must be a member of DOMAIN ADMINS on the NT server.
- Must be running NWLink protocol on the NT server.
- Must be running GSNW (Gateway Services for NetWare) on the NT server.

## The destination drive on the NT server must be NTFS to successfully migrate file and directory security information from the NetWare server.

1. Migration Tool for NetWare Is accessed from the command line (NWCONV.EXE) It is located in the \WINNT\system32 folder
2. The main Migration Tool for NetWare screen.

Press the ADD button and you get this Select Servers for Migration dialog box:

The User and Group dialog box allows you to customize how users and groups will be transferred.
Click User Options on the Main screen to access User and Group Options:

> > The default setting is to migrate all users and groups.

Let's go through all the tabs here to review the options and DEFAULT for each:

### 1. Password migration (Click on the Passwords tab see above)

- Migration tool for NetWare cannot read NetWare passwords AND won't transfer them
- By default, migrated user accounts will have no passwords. The following options are available:

- No Password (DEFAULT)- User will have no password.
- Password is Username
- Password is - Will let you select a password for all migrated user accounts.

There is also a checkbox for "User must change password at next logon."

None of this is very secure, so you can use a mapping file to specify passwords - see the Use Mappings File below.

2. Duplicate user names (Click on the Usernames tab)

By default, users with duplicate user names will not migrate. The following options are available:

- Log Error (DEFAULT) - Do not migrate user accounts with duplicate names and log it as an error.
- Ignore - Take no action when conflicting user names are encounterd.
- Overwrite with new Info - Replace existing NT account ifnormation with NetWare account information.
- Add Prefix - Will allow you to choose a prefix and add it to the user name. For example, if two users names are "gwilson", the NetWare account would become Nwgwilson if "NW" was the prefix you specified.

### 3. Duplicate group names (Click on the Group names tab)

By default, duplicate group names will be ignored and will not migrate. The following options are available:

- Log Error - logs an error and does not migrate the group.
- Ignore (DEFAULT) - Does not migrate the group or log an error.
- Add Prefix - Will allow you to choose a prefix to be added to the duplicate group name. Same as user names: if NW is prefix, then SALES from the NetWare server would become NWSALES.

4. Account restrictions (policies and profiles)

(Click on the Defaults tab)

- this tab specifies how the default account restrictions will be handled
- By default, migrated user accounts will retain their NetWare account restrictions (password length, logon hours, etc.). The following options are available:

- Use supervisor defaults (DEFAULT) - Migrates NetWare user account restrictions.
- Add Supervisors to the administrators group - Will add NetWare user accounts with administrative rights on the NetWare side to the DOMAIN ADMINS Global Group on the NT PDC. Default is that they are NOT added to the Domain Admins Global Group and their administrative rights are lost.

5. User account mapping file (Click on the "User Mappings in file check box")

Allows you to specify

- what the migrated user account names and password will be on the NT Server and
- what NetWare group names will be used on the NT Server. It is of the format:

[users]

#### OldNetWareName, NewNTName, NewNTPassword

[groups]

#### OldNetWareGroupName, NewNTGroupName

### 6. Configuring File Options for Migration

- This section allows you to specify how the NetWare volumes, direcotories and files will be transferred.

- Click on File Opitions button on Migration Tool for NetWare

- By default, files are not migrated.

- If the "Transfer files" box is checked, the following NetWare files are not migrated by default:

- \SYSTEM - NetWare operating system files
- \LOGIN - NetWare login environment files
- \ETC - NetWare TCP/IP files
- Files having the NetWare attributes of hidden and/or system

- By default, the NetWare files to be transferred are the root volumes.
- By Default, the destination drive is the NTFS partition with the most free space.

- To change this, click the Modify button
- Enter the information for the new locations

- By Default, the NetWare volume SYS is shared with the share name SYS.

To change this, click on New Share:

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NOTE:
If you choose to migrate to a FAT partition, the NetWare file permissions will not migrate

Clicking Files allows you to specify which files to transfer:

- Remember that ETC, LOGIN and SYSTEM are not selected by default.

7. Trial migration and error logging

When you are ready to perform the migration, Migration Tool for NetWare will allow you to perform a trial migration. This will give you a chance to correct errors and will not actually write data.

Logfile.log will always log all errors. The following error logging options are also available:

- Pop up on errors - pops up a message when an error is encountered.
- Verbose user/group logging - More complete information about user and group migration is added to logfile.log.
- Verbose file logging - More complete information about file migration is added to logfile.log.