getting usernames from nt server

Gavin

ny know of any wayto get a list of user names from a windows nt server 4 machine ?
basically, we are moving to a new server, and want to carry our old users with us..
any1 know a way of just transferring all the names en masse ?

Gav
(win NT4 -> win2000), nt2000 is a new machine

amp

hmmmm, set up the win2k box as a BDC. Connect it to the network. Promote it to a PDC and the nt4 box will be demoted to a BDC. The users accounts will be transferred automagically.

Then it's just a case of copying any login scripts from the nt4 box to the win2k box.

AFAIK this is the only method other than creating them from scratch.

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WhiteWashMan

wouldnt you have to set up the win2k box as secondry server and replicate first?

Gavin

Win2k, doesn't support BDC's and PDC's as such with it's new fancy schmancy active directory As i understand it wanyway

WhiteWashMan

well, thats that theory out the friggin window. guess i'll have to wait til i go on a course to find out!
and if anyone does know, put ***spoiler** on it coz i want the thrill of waiting to find out....

Hobbes

I had to do this some time ago.

What I did was use Automate4 ( http://www.unisyn.com/ )

Then just set it up to copy the settings of each user to a text file and cut and paste them back on the new machine.

Had to reset the password though. Didn't help setting up the shares again.

Gavin

found what i beliewve to be the solution
( hehe that sounds good )

anyweay, there is a program called addusers.exe that ships with NT resource kit seemingly, this will pull alist of all users on a server into a file, then bring it your new machine, run addusers again and it will add them all. mind u.. i can't imagine that it would bring the password alongs. So, i is now looling for addusers.exe
thx fer the help

Gav

amp

ummm, I presume it will. Microsoft would have to incorperate an easy, "robust" way of doing it. And the method I described is the way it's normally done if you wanted to replace one nt4 box with another.

Did a bit of looking around and found this:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/win2000/win2ksrv/manuals/srvgs/sgsch03.asp

You can do it the way I described, (and verb is right that it's now called the active directory) but MS recommend upgrading the PDC first, because a win2k box set up as a member server under a nt4 PDC controlled network would have limited (ie nt4's) features.

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