roger abell [mvp]

You left out one all important piece of information.
In a domain not standalone ??

darin mackenzie ªâœæœ)éó‰çb±ë¬²*²hœ®‹(~×(

It is a domain comtroller. We have to domain controllers.

roger abell [mvp]

Oh Dude ! You have what is the most simple of all cases !
You should be able to just use NTbackup with preservation
of permissions when you do the restore onto the new DC.
That will not recreate the shares and permissions on the shares,
but IIRC there is a utility (resource kit?) that will take care of
the sharing. The main issue you face is that the clients, if not
accessing the shared storage via a DFS, will be expecting all
to be at the same \\servername, which means either clients
would have to adjust to the new DC's new name, or you would
have to run the riskier path of demoting the old, then promoting
the new after it has been renamed as the old.

darin mackenzie ªâœæœ)éó‰çb±ë¬²*²hœ®‹(~×(

i have never heard of IIRC, where do i find this at?

john john

If I Remember Correctly you will find that in the back of your head
somewhere....

John

landcaster

Alternatively, this can be done with 'Secure Copy'
(http://www.scriptlogic.com/products/securecopy/). This tool can retain
shares, share permissions and all of the security settings during the
copying process. For example, when you copying a folder from its
source, this tools checks if the folder shared or not. If it is, this
share automatically is recreated with it's permissions on the target.


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