From: Thees Peereboom 

John,

Thanks - this was what I was looking for (although I appreciate Geo's
advice, too). The problem is that I use so little of NT's server
functionality, NT 4 is more than enough. There's no way I can justify the
cost other than the learning experience.

The disk that will remain in the system is 10G, so I'll divide it in two partitions.

Thanks again.

- Thees Peereboom

On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 09:24:28 GMT, John Beckett
 wrote:

> Geo's advice is good (although I thought that the deadline for NT4 's
> security patches had been moved forward again).
>
> Actually doing what you want could be easy or very difficult, depending
> on
> just what you have on the old machine, and how you have users organised.
>
> The quick answer is that you do a new install of NT4 Server on the new
> machine. During the install, you say you want it to be a BDC to your
> existing domain.
>
> You manually move all shares from the old DC to the new DC. This can be
> automated, but not easily. Assuming small, you can just manually note
> what
> folders and share (and their separate permissions) you have on the old
> machine, and manually set them up the same way on the new.
>
> You then promote the BDC to PDC (Server Manager on the new machine). I
> think you also use Server Manager to delete the old machine (which will
> now be a BDC).
>
> After each step, you wait a while and test. You also check the logs in
> Event Viewer on the PDC and BDC. Before deleting the old machine, you
> shut
> it down for a few days and see if there are any problems.
>
> Your biggest challenge may be installing NT4 if you put it on a big disk.
> If the system and boot partitions are on a disk smaller than 8G you
> probably will be ok.
>
> John
>
>
> Thees Peereboom  wrote in message
> news::
>> All,
>>
>> I will be buying myself a new workstation. The current one, a Dell
>> Precision 220 2 x P3 833 mHz will replace my current NT4 server, which
>> is
>> a 6 years old P133 that is starting to make suspicious sounds.
>>
>> The current NT4 server is the PDC, all other machines are either Linux
>> (1), FreeBSD (3), W2K (2) or XP (2) machines. Oh yes, and a couple of ME
>> machines.
>>
>> So I need to install NT4 on the new server (my current workstation,
>> which
>> is one of the W2K machines). The problem is, of course, that I don't
>> want
>> to lose all my current configurations, userprofiles, etc.
>>
>> So what would be the safest route to change the NT4 PDC? I have no
>> intention of upgrading it to W2K server or W2003 server.
>>
>> TIA,
>>
>> - Thees Peereboom
>

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