Windows Server 2003 - A few questions - Need help badly
ok, I've got an NT server with around 60 user accounts.
And 15gb of data on it with loads of messy ntfs file permissions. - The directorys go quite deep.
Now I also have a new 2003 server which I re-created the accounts and groups on by hand because migrating from NT seemed to be a real headache...
I need to now move the 15gb of data from the NT server to the new 2003 server which will go via my XP Pro machine as windows 2003 has a habit of killing NT i've heard. ;-).
ok, I just found out that each user account has some sort of uniquie Identifyer. (Possibly a SID??? ) and that is not going to be possible for a folder with permissions for user "John Smith" be accessable to a newly created account named "John Smith" on the windows 2003 machine because the SID/unique key will be different.
Now here is my question. How can i come around this? Can I make windows not look at the Unique key and instead just the username?
Or can I import the unqiue key and copy the key from John Smith on the NT machine to John Smith on the 2003 machine overwritting what 2003 had already put there. I don't mind manually porting over this key if possible.
And if none of the above options are avalible is it possible to "clean" every file and remove permissons so I can go through the lengthy task and rebuilding the file structure?
