Moving to 2003.

Hiya

I work in a small company and do the computer side of things part time (a full it admin would be over budget).

Years ago i set up our current network, pcs logging onto an NT domain, to access shared files on the NT server and its worked fine.

We want to move to server 2003 now so to 'get a clean start' we got win 2003 server (standard) and a new machine and i created a completely new domain.
Ive manually added user accounts to the server, and manualy copied the data. Ive made the new machine a seperate domain controller.

Everything has gone fine untill it comes to switching the new machines (all xp pro) to login to the new domain controller.

I went into 'system' on the xp pro machine and tried changing the 'member of domain' value there, but after prompting for id/password it comes up with an error 'server cannot complete request'.

I figured this was because i am still a member of the old domain, the single machine running xp home can connect to the files on the new server fine once a password has been entered.

But when trying to leave the old domain on the xp pro machines i end up either freezing the pc, or losing the users local profile on reboot (only restored on returning to the old login details).

Can anyone highlight the steps i should be taking to switch users over?.

I suspect i need to make the user logins local administrators?.


Sorry if this seems confused, ive become familiar with NT over the years and easily replaced our NT server a while back (simple promotion/demotion) but 2003 is a new creature to me.

Cheers.

 

Does it have to be a totally clean start? This could save you a lot of time.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...7B-533A-466D-A8E8-AFF85AD3D212&displaylang=en

 

If you already have the clean slate and are ready to move the boxes, try moving each of the PCs out of the first domain and then join to the new one. As for your old profiles, THIS is da bomb. It does sometimes go a little flakey on a machine and you have to run it again. But it is very easy and saved me TONS of time migrating 75 users.

 

Exactly what im looking for!, many thanks.

 

Just an update: used the 'documents and settings wizard in the end to copy
across the profile, worked like a charm (im a bit surprised).

The slow login / freezing was due to a DNS issue, i had left the Client pc looking at the wrong DNS.

Anyway appreciate the help, thanks.

Trev