Version PK-2.02
(Nov 22, 1998)
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Although Novell supplied a couple of migration utilities with NetWare to assist you in moving information from a bindery-based environment to NDS, however, there are types of certain information, such as Group Names and Home Directory settings, are not moved. Also, the migration utilities create NDS objects all in uppercase and translates underscores (often used in the bindery-based environment) into space; this sometimes cause confusion.
Mig2NDS is a set of three DOS-based utilities that were developed to assist you in migrating from a bindery-based NetWare environment to NDS:
- PRTINFO.EXE. To be run on a bindery-based server to obtain information about Users, Groups, Print Queues, and Print Servers.
- CLEANUP.EXE. To be used against NDS to perform housekeeping functions. Can convert object names into all lower case or all upper case, or a mixed case. Can populate the Home Directory attribute of User objects. Can translate underscores to spaces and vice versa.
- GRPNAME.EXE. To be run against NDS to add names to the Group objects. To be used in conjunction with output from either PRTINFO (or PRINTGRP from Novell Research).
NetWare 5 certified. (YES Bulletin #44436)
No special installation steps or program need to be used. Simply copy CLEANUP.EXE, GRPNAME.EXE and PRTINFO.EXE to SYS:PUBLIC of your servers. You must have the Unicode files for the country code and code page that your workstation use available in the the respective NLS directories, for example, SYS:PUBLIC\NLS.
If you choose to place the Mig2NDS files in a different directory, you may need a search map to SYS:PUBLIC\NLS in order for the application to find the Unicode files.
PRTINFO
You can use PrtInfo to get a list of all users, groups, print queues, and print servers defined on a given NetWare server. However, the group information is of most importance -- you can use it to populate the NDS Group objects with the group name information as it is not migrated.
PrtInfo expects three command-line parameters, two mandatory and one optional:
PRTINFO servername -PQ | -PS | -USER | -GROUP [-R]
The first parameter tells PrtInfo from which server to extract the information from; the second parameter specifies the type of information:
- -PQ = Print Queue
- -PS = Print Server
- -USER = User
- -GROUP = Group
The third parameter is optional, and specifies if a report file should be generated. NOTE: You must first establish a connection to the server before running PrtInfo.
For example, to generate a user report for the server named NW410B, the command is PRTINFO nw410b -user -r
The following is a sample output from PrtInfo; the name of the log file correpsonds to the information-type selection:
PrtInfo Version PK-1.50 [s/n: DLAN/971017-DLAN] (Print Bindery User/Group/PrintQ/PrintServer Info) Copyright (C) 1997, DreamLAN Network Consulting Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Licensed to XYZZY Report generated on 17 Oct 97 at 21:17:58. All known Users found on server NW410B: CSADMIN GUEST KUOP (full name from syscon - modified by NWAdmin) SUPERVISOR UNIX_SERVICE_HANDLER USER1 USER2 USER3 USER5 (User 5 - NDS) *** End of Report (USER.LOG) ***
CLEANUP
CleanUp is designed to perform some house cleanup routines after a migration process. However, you can also use it regularly to keep NDS object naming convention consistent. CleanUp accepts the following command-line parameters:
CLEANUP [-b #] [-o #] [-n #] [-?] [-c] [-r] [-h]
where
-b # NDS object name type 0 = allow blank 1 = use underscore (default) -o # NDS object name case type -n # User object Full Name case type 1 = all lowercase (default) 1 = all lowercase 2 = all uppercase 2 = all uppercase 3 = mixed case 3 = mixed case (default) 4 = leave as is 4 = leave as is -? Show this help screen -c Continuous scroll on display -h Populate Home Directory attribute -r Generate a report file (CLEANUP.LOG)
CleanUp operates on objects in the current context only.
To make all object names in the current container (context) to be in lower case and generate a report file, the syntax for CleanUp is:
CLEANUP -o1 -c -r
To change all spaces in object names to underscores, change all object names and User objects' Full Names to mixed case, and assign Home Directories, the syntax for CleanUp is:
CLEANUP -b1 -n3 -o3 -h
You will be prompted for the volume object name and the parent directory for the user home directories. Shown below is a sample log file from the above CleanUp command:
CleanUp Version MT-1.50 [s/n: DLAN/971017-DLAN] (Cleanup NDS Information) Copyright (C) 1997, DreamLAN Network Consulting Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Report file (CLEANUP.LOG) generated on October 18, 1997 at 17:04:20 Runtime options: [-R] [-B 1] [-O 3] [-N 3] Searching context <test> only NDS Tree Listing: test CN=Test1 [Not changed] FullName: Test User Here [Not changed] CN=Test2 [Not changed] FullName: !NONE! CN=Test3 [Not changed] FullName: Test 3 [Not changed] OU=Level2 [Not changed] OU=Level2b [Not changed] CN=Test6_Alias [Not changed] CN=New_Group_here -> New_Group_Here CN=New_User_name -> New_User_Name FullName: New User Name [Not changed] CN=Q1 [Not changed] CN=Ps-test [Not changed] CN=P1 [Not changed] CN=$$lan_Coordinators [Not changed] CN=$reset_By_helpdesk -> $reset_By_Helpdesk CN=Scout [Not changed] TotalContainer found = 3. TotalObject found = 15. Total User objects = 4. User names processed = 0. *** End of Report ***
GRPNAME
GrpName is to be used in conjunction with PrtInfo (or PRINTGRP available from Novell Research). GrpName reads the output log file from PrtInfo (with the -GROUP option) and updates the Group objects in NDS with the group names. If you are using PRINTGRP, you have to create the log file by redirecting the screen output to a file. GrpName accepts the following command-line parameters:
GRPNAME [-f name] [-?] [-c] [-r]
where
- -f name Output file from PRINTGRP or output file from PRTINFO (GROUP.LOG)
- -? Show this help screen
- -c Continuous scroll on display
- -r Generate a report file (GRPNAME.LOG)
GrpName operates on objects in the current context only.
The following is a sample output from GrpName:
GrpName Version PK-1.50 (s/n: DLAN/971017-DLAN) (Populate Group Name) Copyright (C) 1997, DreamLAN Network Consulting Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Pre-Release Version (Do not distribute) Log file generated on October 18, 1997 at 16:43:41 Current context: <test> $$LAN_COORDINATORS -> [R] <Designated Departmental LAN Coordinator> $RESET_BY_HELPDESK -> [R] <(Helpdesk Staff Group)> Number of groups processed: 2 Groups have name added : 2 Groups have name replaced : 0 *** End of Report (GRPNAME.LOG) ***
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Mig2NDS is Shareware. However, you are granted an unlimited usage, until March-31-1999, to use this Pre-Release Version at no cost.
Mig2NDS is written in C using Microsoft C optimizing compiler and Novell Developer Kit. Some string manipulating routines are from the CXL library.
Inclusion of this utility on CD-ROMs (except for backup purposes) without permission from DreamLAN Network Consulting Ltd. is expressly prohibited.