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Conference noted::pwdoswinv5

Title:PATHWORKS V5 for DOS and Windows
Notice:OS2LAN::OS2:[PUBLIC] is alive again, but not what it used to be
Moderator:RANGER::CURLESS
Created:Fri Feb 11 1994
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:7404
Total number of notes:27276

7378.0. "Converting PW users to NT" by ACISS2::DATZMAN (Vee Vont To Pomp You Up) Tue Apr 08 1997 10:40

        Has anyone written written scripts to convert PATHWORKS file&print
        shares and users to NT?  
        
        Specifically, a customer is looking for
        scripts using NET commands on UNIX that can export the PATHWORKS
        information and then ingest the data into NT using something like
        ADDUSER.EXE.
        
        
        Any help is much appreciated.
        
        Dick
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7378.1VMSNET::S_VORESmile - Mickey's Watching!Tue Apr 08 1997 15:184
    this would be best asked (and I believe has been in at least one of
    these) in either the NT (not PW-NT) Notesfile or the PW/UNIX notesfile. 
    See note 7 for locations.
7378.2SPELNK::curlessSure it's a bug, but did you CLD/QAR it?Thu Apr 10 1997 12:1018
So basically you are asking for:

1)  A tool that will read a "PATHWORKS USER" database
2)  Use the obtained data to create accounts on an NT system?

Hmm....

How about:

1) Install NT on a machine.
2) Make it a backup domain controller for the domain the unix box is in
3) allow it to sync.
4) promote it to Primary.

Data transfered.

Jeff
7378.3might workVMSNET::S_VORESmile - Mickey's Watching!Thu Apr 10 1997 15:272
    IFF(pwunix.version=6)
    a v5 server can't be a PDC for an NT server.
7378.4PWRK$UPGRADEATYISA::JOUVELLIER[email protected]Tue Apr 15 1997 05:0214
    
    
    Dick as i know you may use the MERGE option while running the pwrk$upgrade
    procedure from the pathworks server. It will merge accounts from pathworks 
    server and the NT machine. 
    
    But you should keep in mind that passwords are lost i mean each
    pathworks user created on NT will have its own username as password
    because the merge procedure is unable to retrieve a password. 
    
    
    For file and print services i don't know how manage it
    
    philippe