NetWare Will Not Migrate Users or Groups

• Microsoft Windows NT Server versions 3.51 and 4.0

SYMPTOMS

After you perform a trial migration from a NetWare 4.10 or 4.11 server using the Migration Tool for NetWare, the migration summary window appears with the following message:

   Transfer Completed
    Totals
     Migrations Completed  1
     Groups Transferred:   0
     Users Transferred:    0
     Files Transferred     xxxxxx
     Errors                2

   [NWServer Name -> NT Server Name]
   Error:  Getting Groups on Server: NWServer Name
   Error:  Getting Users on Server:  NWServer Name

CAUSE

Even though Gateway Services for NetWare (GSNW) and Client Services for NetWare (CSNW) support NDS-style logon capabilities on Windows NT version 4.0, Nwconv.Exe (Migration Tool for NetWare) does not. You must have bindery emulation configured on the NetWare server you want to migrate. With bindery services, NDS imitates a flat structure for leaf objects within a set of Organization (O) and Organizational Unit (OU) objects.

Thus, when bindery services are enabled, all objects within the specified container's bindery context can be accessed both by NDS objects and by bindery-based servers and client workstations.

RESOLUTION

To check whether bindery emulation has been configured on the NetWare server to be migrated, use the following steps:

1. Load Servman at the NetWare server console.

2. Select Server Parameters, and then select Directory Services.

3. In the Directory Service Parameters, select Bindery Emulation. If there is no SET statement to the right of this entry, bindery emulation has not been enabled.

The bindery context is the container object where bindery services are set. You can change the bindery context by using the SET or SERVMAN server utility to set the relevant parameters. Specify one or more containers to be used by NetWare Directory Services when it provides bindery services. The containers should have a maximum of 256 characters and a maximum of 16 contexts, and should use semicolons to separate multiple contexts.

Examples:

   SET BINDERY CONTEXT=ACCT.HQ.ACME
   SET BINDERY CONTEXT=OU=SALES.O=COMPANY;OU=AR.OU=ACCOUNTING.O=COMPANY

Method One

1. While in Servman, click Server Parameters, then click Directory Services, and then click Bindery Emulation.

2. When you press ENTER, a text entry box will appear; type in the following set statement, substituting the name of the organizational unit from which users will be pulled for OU, and substituting the name of the organization (TREE) where the organizational unit resides for O:

         SET BINDERY CONTEXT = OU=USERS.O=TREE
   

Method Two

1. Click Install NLM (Load Install), and then click Edit Autoexec.ncf File.

2. Restart the NetWare server using the Down and Exit commands.