1 Unfortunately, the Resource Kit info is Win NT4/2K version specific.
5 1. On your NT4 Domain Controller, right click on 'My Computer', then
6 select the tab labelled 'User Profiles'.
8 2. Select a user profile you want to migrate and click on it.
10 Note: I am using the term "migrate" lossely. You can copy a profile to
11 create a group profile. You can give the user 'Everyone' rights to the
12 profile you copy this to. That is what you need to do, since your samba
13 domain is not a member of a trust relationship with your NT4 PDC.
15 3. Click the 'Copy To' button.
17 4. In the box labelled 'Copy Profile to' add your new path, eg:
20 5. Click on the button labelled 'Change' in the "Permitted to use" box.
22 6. Click on the group 'Everyone' and then click OK. This closes the
27 Follow the above for every profile you need to migrate.
32 You should obtain the SID of your NT4 domain. You can use smbpasswd to do
33 this. Read the man page.
35 With Samba-3.0.0 alpha code you can import all you NT4 domain accounts
36 using the net samsync method. This way you can retain your profile
37 settings as well as all your users.
41 The above method can be used to create mandatory profiles also. To convert
42 a group profile into a mandatory profile simply locate the NTUser.DAT file
43 in the copied profile and rename it to NTUser.MAN.
48 The W2K professional resource kit has moveuser.exe:
52 moveuser.exe changes the security of a profile from one user to another.
53 This allows the account domain to change, and/or the user name to change.
58 You can identify the SID by using GetSID.exe from the Windows NT Server 4.0
61 Windows NT 4.0 stores the local profile information in the registry under
63 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
65 Under the ProfileList key, there will be subkeys named with the SIDs of the
66 users who have logged on to this computer. (To find the profile information
67 for the user whose locally cached profile you want to move, find the SID for
68 the user with the GetSID.exe utility.) Inside of the appropriate user's
69 subkey, you will see a string value named ProfileImagePath.