[ Thanks to Myddrin
for this link. ]
“Migrating file and print sharing services from a
Windows machine to a Linux box is time consuming and often prone to
error. To perform such an endeavor manually, an administrator must
set up hundreds (if not thousands) of user accounts, then create
file and print shares, and then copy files from the Windows
environment to Linux. This manual work can take hours, if not days,
to complete properly. DAS Technology’s LSP is a utility that
automates the entire conversion process. The software automatically
converts users and groups, and copies files from the Windows to
Linux Server, but it also goes a step further. It can migrate any
Web pages being served by an existing Windows machine to Apache Web
server on a Linux machine, and can copy any FTP files and
configuration parameters from the Windows environment to Linux. As
an added bonus, it can also migrate the NT server’s DNS and DHCP
configurations.For our tests we used a Red Hat 6.2 server running on a Dell
PowerEdge 1300 and a Windows NT 4.0 server running on a Dell
PowerEdge 2300. On the Red Hat system, we downloaded a TAR file
from the company’s FTP server and decompressed it into a work
directory. Likewise, we downloaded a ZIP file containing a
SETUP.EXE installation program to install on the NT Server. (As
part of the installation on the NT Server we made sure to install
Service Pack 3 and the Option Pack.)LSP’s NT to Linux migration process happens in four stages,
alternating between the NT and Linux servers. The first stage
involves running a data collection program on the NT server–this
process obtains the server information–such as share names,
directory and file structures, Internet Information Server
configuration data, and so on–that LSP will migrate.”