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Migrating from ASIP 6.3 to Panther

Hi All

Well I have received my long awaited xserve and begun my transition. I have armed myself with such useful manuals as the migration guide (esp pages 96-105), John Detroyes Unifying WorkGroup manager and Macintosh Manager, User Management and of course the getting started manual that shipped with the box.

I have myself backed into a corner however and I could use some help quite frankly.

I am starting from a situation of having all my client machines running MM under OS 9.2.2 on a server running the same system and ASIP 6.3.
I want to move to having all of my eMacs on OS X 10.3 and controlled using Workgroup manager, and all of my older imacs running OS 9.2.2 and MM 2.2.2. All of our students will sit at both types of machines and need to be able to access their personal documents regardless of the environment that they log in under.

I started off by using the ASIP Migration Tool, I am guessing that was just not the right thing to do in hindsight, but it did create user folders for in the USERS directory on my hard drive, it didnt import any actual users into workgroup manager though, or as far as i could tell into MM either. The log file in Library/Logs/Migration/UsersGroupsExceptions.log showed a whole lot of entries like this...

Skipped user Stefan Gregori

apparently one entry for every user infact.

Then I copied all of the existing Macintosh Manager data from the old ASIP server into the Library/Macintosh Manager folder. and ran the suggested terminal command sudo chown -R mmuser:admin "/Library/Macintosh Manager/Old MM Items/" (what was that meant to do btw?)

Then I tried importing the user info that i had exported from the old ASIP server but was told the format wasnt xml, so i edited it by hand to make it work with Richard MacLemal's MM2 import helper application so made it into a tab deliminated file with first name, last name and the same password for everyone.

I could then import all of those users into workgroup manager, when i went to open the MM 2 admin app from a workstation and i said yes when it asked if i wanted to convert previous macintosh manager settings but after a few steps it told me there was an error and i couldnt proceed, in the end i said that i didnt want to convert the settings, and after a few errors suggesting i do stuff like verify my users and groups it let me in. At that stage it still appeared that there were no users in the MM environment, I then added them by hand from the workgroup manager.

Now when i test log on as a user i have to log on using the shortname, i had hoped to be able to log on using the full name, should that be possible?
Also the users now seem to have two user folders one in the Library/macintosh Manager/Macintosh Manager/Users directory and also one in the Users directory of the hard drive which i am guessing the os x clients will log into.
Also the user folders i nthe USers directory all have permissions such that i cannot access them as an admin, so i cant transfer their documents to them.

So some questions, the first is perhaps the most important, Should I have been able to import my users and documents form the ASIP server such that their information transfered over in a state that they could still log on using the same username and password and still access all of their documents? And should they have been able to access all of their documents from a MM environment, a Managed Clients enviroment or both?

Any pointers would be greatfully received. I am hopeing I just overlooked some basic task and that when school resumes in ten days things will work nicely in the new environment.

Many thanks

Warren Hall
Queen Charlotte College
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