Are there any problems migrating users from OSX 10.4.11 server to 10.6.6. server using WGM?

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Published on 2011-02-19T20:47:21Z Indexed on 2011/02/19 23:26 UTC
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I have just set up a new Mac server running 10.6.6. Installation went smoothly and all appears ok. Can create a new user through WGM and logon to the server from one of our local client systems. Imported the old users from the 10.4 system using WGM but the new system will not create home directories for these users and will not let them log on.

I have read that there are issues using this method but can not find any detail as to why. Not wishing to recreate over 350 users from scratch I am looking for an easier solution. Can anyone help?

The new server is 10.6.6. We use Open Directory and AFP. The paths are the same as the old server.

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