Migrating From A Mixed Novell/Active Directory to a Active D

Roadtec System Admin · Guest

The company I work for runs on Active Directory for the main user accounts
and email. Our DC's, GC's, and Exchange servers are Server 2003. The main
two file server are Novell 5. Right now I manage keeping the two
synchronized. Of course there is a want to take the Novell servers, phase
them out, then put Server 2003 servers in their place. My main concern and
lack of knowledge on is how do I migrate the persmissions/rights of
eDirectory over to AD? I have worked at this company almost 10 months and I
didn't setup the Novell side of the network, but I did oversee the move to AD
(it was partially done when I arrived). There are groups in NetWare that
correspond to directories on specific servers; ie: they are named the same as
their corresponding folder/voume. Example:

//server_name/volume/directory (Full Access)

When a user is created, he is she is added to the specifc group that he/she
needs access to in relation with the folder/volume on the server. This is an
easy and straight forward way of doing it, frankly I think it is brilliant.
So if Jan Doe needs server 1, voume 1 and the accounting and billing
directory, then you add the groups of

//server1/volume1/accounting (Full Access)
//server1/volume1/billing (Full Access)

and she would have access to the appropriate folders. (There are Read Only
groups to. )

Is this possible to do in AD? I have no problem moving a voume of data to
NTFS voume/share. I just want to see IF I can keep the functionality that
has been setup in eDirectory. Thank you.

wickydog · Guest

Hi,

What is your version of Novell? If you are using Novell 6 it will be easy as
you can just make the connection via LDAP and transfer user accounts.

If you are using Novell 5 or below, you can install Novell Client in the
Windows 2003 Domain Controllers, then using ADMT to move Novell Accounts.

Thanks and Regards
Jacky

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