From the Windows workstation where you are running the Server Migration Utility, you need access to the source NetWare server where the directory structure for the post office or domain is located. This enables the Server Migration Utility to copy the GroupWise data to the destination Linux server and to identify existing agent startup files to transfer to Linux.

The NCPFS package enables the Server Migration Utility to create a NetWare Core Protocol (NCP) file system mount of the source NetWare server to the destination Linux server.

At the Linux server, use the following command to determine if the NCPFS package is installed:

rpm -qa | grep ncpfs

If it is installed, the NCPFS package is listed. If the NCPFS package is not installed, use the Install and Remove Software option of YaST to install it from your Linux installation media.

To prepare for the migration, the Server Migration Utility needs to copy the GroupWise agent and utility RPMs from an existing software location to a temporary location on the destination Linux server. You must use the version of GroupWise software that matches the version of GroupWise that is already installed. You cannot use the GroupWise Server Migration Utility to update post offices and domains from an earlier version of GroupWise during the migration process.

A GroupWise software distribution directory on a NetWare server does not contain GroupWise Linux software unless you have placed it there from a GroupWise for Linux DVD or software distribution directory.

If you are running the Server Migration Utility at the workstation where you typically administer GroupWise, these programs are already available. If they are not available on your current workstation, you can obtain them from:

Your GroupWise Installation software (recommended)

Novell Downloads

The ssh daemon is a secure shell program that allows the Server Migration Utility to log in to the destination Linux server as root and execute programs there. At the Linux server, use the following command to verify that the ssh daemon is running:

ps -eaf | grep sshd

If it is not running, use the following command to start it:

/etc/init.d/sshd start

You must also ensure that processes from outside the server’s firewall can communicate with the ssh daemon. In YaST, click Security and Users > Firewall. Click Next until you reach the list of available services on the server. Make sure that Secure Shell (ssh) is selected, then click Next until you reach the end of the firewall configuration process. Click Continue to save your settings and restart the firewall.

After you have done the initial copy of a post office and started the Linux POA, you use the Windows client to make sure that the user in the migrated post office can connect to his or her Online mailbox on the destination Linux server and that the mailbox contents have been transferred.

Depending on how you want to set up your backup procedure for the domain or post office on Linux, you might need double the disk space occupied by the domain or post office so that you can maintain a current copy of the domain or post office to run your backup software against. To consider backup alternatives on Linux, see the following sections in the GroupWise Administration Guide for your version of GroupWise: