Moving folders and files what about permissions?

[Scruby]

We are moving files and folders from one domain to another domain, is there a way to move the access control list when I move the folders and files so that they will have the same permission after the move? Someone told me about the CACLS command?

Thanks in advance, Scruby

 

[frkb]

I won't say no, but I suspect there's not. Though your usernames may be identical on both domains, they are absolutely unique to each domain. With that in mind it doesn't seem possible that you could migrate rights between unique users.

 

[KCDave03]

use Robocopy.exe

 

[Seaspray0]

Windows backup is supposed to maintain the ACL's. You backup from one location and restore to another. The problem you may have is... who on the other domain is going to have the SID's that are listed in the ACL? Nobody is my guess. I suspect you are going to have to rebuild the ACL's to reflect the SID's for the other domain. Even if you have a username that is the same for both domains, the security ID's aren't going to match.

 

[Scruby]

Thank you ALL, Looks like Robocopy.exe and percopy.exe will do the trick.

Scruby

 

[Scruby]

Robocopy will work for the folders, is there a command to move user accounts from one domain to another domain and still have the same acls?

Thanks, Scurby

 

[Seaspray0]

There are support tools supplied with the server that are not normally installed. You must manually install these. In those utilities, you will find programs that move object from one domain to another in active directory, like movetree.exe