NTFS issues, when copy files from NT4 server to server 2003.

[DrPink]

I'm migrating my users homedir from an NT4 server to a Win 2000 server. I need to move all the folders, keeping the NTFS rights, but I can't seem to do it.
The folders on the target server gets the NTFS rights that they inherits from the top folder, none of the original rights are copied.
The servers are in the same domain.
I have tried from a workstation and from the target server, logged on as a member of the domain administrators.
I have been using robocopy, richcopy and permcopy. None of these runs from the sourceserver.
Another weird thing that might be related to this is, that when I look at the properties for a folder on the sourceserver from the targetserver (or any other PC), the security tab show sort of an error, saying "unable to display security information."

Weird stuff.

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[GrimR]

I have been using robocopy, richcopy and permcopy

mmm not sure that will help with the SID. I take it you have not used ADMT and The User Account Migration Wizard

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[58sniper]

robocopy works fine for NTFS rights, assuming both source and target are in the same domain.

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[DrPink]

@58sniper : yes, you would think that, wouldn't you? But it doesn't. The NT4 server a domain controller for the domain that the 2003 server is a member of.

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[NortonES2]

What flags are you using with the robocopy command?

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[58sniper]

robocopy absolutely maintains NTFS rights when the right flags are used. I've used it for years to move terabytes of data.

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[DrPink]

I have no doubts, that you have used it successfully, but from NT4 to win20XX? I have tried with different flags: SEC, COPYALL, DATSO.

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