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User Migration Fails If Only the "Everyone" Group Exists

Article ID: 157608

Article Last Modified on 11/1/2006

Microsoft Windows NT Server 3.51
Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Standard Edition

This article was previously published under Q157608

SYMPTOMS

When you use the Migration Tool for NetWare (Nwconv.exe) to transfer user and group accounts from a NetWare server to a computer running Windows NT Server, no user accounts are transferred. In addition, you see the following error message in the log file:

Error: getting groups on server: <server-name>

CAUSE

This behavior can occur if there are no groups other than the default EVERYONE group on the NetWare server.

RESOLUTION

To work around this problem, create another group (other than the EVERYONE group) on the NetWare server before you migrate the accounts to Windows NT.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Windows NT version 3.51 and 4.0.

Additional query words: nwconv migrate convert

Keywords: kbfaq kbnetwork KB157608