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I'm in dire need of assistance. In our company 2 of our domains( which are both win 2k domains) are being absorbed the companies larger domain which is also a win 2k domain. The 2 domains to be absorbed are in their own forest and don't and will not have a trust relationship with the domain absorbing them. In one of the domains to be absorbed, at the command line I ran the ldifde utility to export the users to a file . It created the exportuser.ldf successfully. When I tried to import the users from the exportuser.ldf file into the domain was absorbing the other domain I received an add error on line 1: Referral " A referral was returned from the server," 0 entries modified successfully. An error has occured in the program. We have approximately 2000 users to move into the new domain and it would be difficult to type them anew. Could someone help me get the import function to work correctly? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, Vicky279

 

[Jason Robarts [MSFT]]

Check the DNs of the objects you are trying to add. Do they reference the
old domain instead of the domain you are intending to import them into? A
referral is usually issued when you are trying to perform an operation on an
object for a naming context that server doesn't host. Since it doesn't host
the object it refers you to a server that does. For example, if I try and
add the object cn=jasonrob,dc=windows,dc=microsoft,dc=com on a DC that only
hosts the Configuration, Schema, and dc=microsoft,dc=com namespace the DC
will issue a referral to a DC that hosts the dc=windows,dc=microsoft,dc=com
namespace. ldifde has a -c command line argument that will replace parts of
DNs for you if you know what the value should be for the new domain.

Jason
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I'm in dire need of assistance. In our company 2 of our domains( which are

both win 2k domains) are being absorbed the companies larger domain which is
also a win 2k domain. The 2 domains to be absorbed are in their own forest
and don't and will not have a trust relationship with the domain absorbing
them. In one of the domains to be absorbed, at the command line I ran the
ldifde utility to export the users to a file . It created the exportuser.ldf
successfully. When I tried to import the users from the exportuser.ldf file
into the domain was absorbing the other domain I received an add error on
line 1: Referral " A referral was returned from the server," 0 entries
modified successfully. An error has occured in the program. We have
approximately 2000 users to move into the new domain and it would be
difficult to type them anew. Could someone help me get the import function
to work correctly? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance,
Vicky279

 

[Simon Geary]

And, as I recently learned in this very newsgroup, you can use the -m switch
to filter out the user attributes that ldifde can export but cannot import.

 

[Cary Shultz [A.D. MVP]]

Vicky,

If you used the example command line entry that I supplied in my original
post you would not have any problems. The only thing that you would need to
change would be the "DC=olddomain,DC=com" part of each user's DN to
"DC=newdomain,DC=com" - which you can do in a really quick second with
NotePad.

So long as you use the -m switch like I originally suggested you should be
fine. That apparently is not the case, however.

Can you show us an example of your .ldf file that you are trying to import
into the new domain? I have done this several times where a restore from
backup is simply not a good choice ( for various reasons ) and have never
had a problem with this.

Cary

I'm in dire need of assistance. In our company 2 of our domains( which are

both win 2k domains) are being absorbed the companies larger domain which is
also a win 2k domain. The 2 domains to be absorbed are in their own forest
and don't and will not have a trust relationship with the domain absorbing
them. In one of the domains to be absorbed, at the command line I ran the
ldifde utility to export the users to a file . It created the exportuser.ldf
successfully. When I tried to import the users from the exportuser.ldf file
into the domain was absorbing the other domain I received an add error on
line 1: Referral " A referral was returned from the server," 0 entries
modified successfully. An error has occured in the program. We have
approximately 2000 users to move into the new domain and it would be
difficult to type them anew. Could someone help me get the import function
to work correctly? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance,
Vicky279