Microsoft KB Archive/269130

= Migrating NIS NETGROUP File to Active Directory May Not Work =

Article ID: 269130

Article Last Modified on 11/1/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows Services for UNIX 2.0 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q269130



SYMPTOMS
When you attempt to migrate the Network Information service (NIS) NETGROUP file into Active Directory by using Windows Services for UNIX 2.0, you may receive a a &quot;Failure&quot; error message.



CAUSE
This behavior is caused by a space after the comma in the data for a group name entry.



RESOLUTION
Remove the spaces after any commas.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.



MORE INFORMATION
The UNIX NIS NETGROUP file (or map) contains the definitions of NIS groups. The file is in text format; you can open it with a word processor or text editor (such as Notepad). Windows Services for UNIX 2.0 can migrate NIS maps into Windows 2000 Active Directory. The expected format in the NETGROUP file is:

If an entry has spaces after the commas, the migration does not succeed.

An easy way to remove extra spaces is to open the NETGROUP file in Notepad. Click Replace on the Edit menu. In the Find What box, type &quot;, &quot; (without the quotation marks). In the Replace With box, type &quot;,&quot; (without the quotation marks). This removes all trailing spaces after commas.

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