Meet System and Software Requirements

• Log in to your destination NDS tree with a user that is listed in the bindery context of the destination NDS tree. Make sure the user has the Supervisor right to the destination servers that you are migrating file data to and three available user licenses.

  For more on how to enable the Supervisor right, see the ConsoleOne^TM Documentation.

• Make sure you have the Write right to all NDS containers and directories that are receiving data from NetWare 3.

Preparing the Workstation

• A Windows 98, Windows NT (4.0 or later), or Windows 2000 workstation with 50 MB of available disk space.

  IMPORTANT:  NetWare Migration Wizard 6 does not run on a Windows 95 workstation.

  • The Windows 98 workstation must be running Novell Client^TM for Windows 98 version 3.3 or later.
  • The Windows NT/2000 workstation must be running Novell Client for Windows NT/2000 version 4.8 or later.

  To check your current Novell Client version, right-click the N icon on the workstation toolbar, and then click Novell Client Properties > Client. If you need to download the latest client, see the Novell Software Downloads Web site.

• The IPX^TM protocol running on your Novell Client workstation. Make sure that your client workstation has an IPX connection to your source server and destination tree.

Preparing the Source Server

The source server is the existing server that contains the data that will be copied to the destination NDS tree.

• The source server must be running NetWare 3.11 or later.

  Load the following NLM^TM program at the server console of each NetWare 3 source server that you are planning to migrate:

  • For NetWare 3.11, load TSA311.NLM
  • For NetWare 3.12 and 3.2, load TSA312. NLM

• Use SYSCON to verify that you have the console operator right to the source server.
• Back up all data on the source server.

Preparing the Servers in the Destination NDS Tree

The destination NDS tree is the NDS tree that contains the servers that will receive the data migrated from the NetWare 3 source server. After data is copied from the source server, it appears in the destination NDS tree.

Make sure that all the servers that you are migrating data to in the destination NDS tree have the following:

• NetWare 4, NetWare 5, or NetWare 6 installed.

  NOTE:  NetWare Migration Wizard 6 does not migrate to NetWare 4.10 servers.

• The IPX protocol running and bound to the network card of each NetWare server in the destination NDS tree that you are migrating files to.

  WARNING:  If IPX is not bound and running on the destination server, the file migration will fail. To check whether IPX is bound, enter CONFIG at the server console of the destination server.

Continue with the next section, "Creating a Template Object."

Creating a Template Object

This is an optional prerequisite task. A Template object is used to define additional NDS user attributes to NetWare 3 users during the migration. We recommend that you use a Template object because it is an organized way to migrate your NetWare 3 users to the NDS tree and manage them once they are there.

If there is a conflict between the properties of a Template object and properties of a NetWare 3 user, the properties of the Template object will, in most cases, take priority. For example, if a minimum password length of seven characters is specified for the NetWare 3 user, Jeff, and a minimum password length of nine characters is specified in the Template object, then when Jeff's object is migrated, the object will be created in NDS with a password length of nine characters.

If you want to know what additional NDS attributes can be defined in a Template object, run ConsoleOne and double-click a Template object to view all of the existing properties.

The last name, full name, and description of every NetWare 3 object is always migrated and these corresponding properties from the Template object are overwritten.

If you decide to use a Template object, you can create one in ConsoleOne by clicking File > New > Object > Template.

Continue with the next section, "Run Novell NetWare Migration Wizard."