[ngw] promote secondary to primary

[Randy Grein]

That did the trick. Once I had the Netware volume mounted and shut  
down the MTAs I connected to the primary domain and was able to easily  
change the secondary to a primary. Not sure what this means for long  
term maintenance, but it does argue for using OES as a long term base  
platform to avoid problems with SMB file shares.

Thanks, I never would have completed this without your book and direct  
help. i only wished we were staying with Groupwise, but we should be  
stable now through the summer.
Randy Grein

On Apr 12, 2010, at 9:38 AM, Danita Zanre wrote:

> It might very well need connection to both - I didn't try to go  
> through with the change on mine.  But it's a good idea to be able to  
> connect to both anyway - since you don't have SAMBA on the Linux  
> server, it's easiest to just do an ncpmount to the NetWare server  
> from there.
>
> Danita
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Randy Grein  
> <randygrein at comcast.net> wrote:
> Thanks for checking. I have no idea what's going on, on windows  
> connected to the primary convert secondary to primary is available -  
> but then it wants to connect to the secondary to complete. I'll try  
> mounting the primary from the linux server and see how that works.  
> Day off for me (unpaid furlough day due to budget cuts) but still  
> working...
> Randy Grein
>
> On Apr 12, 2010, at 9:18 AM, Danita Zanre wrote:
>
>> No - you just have to be connected to the primary.
>>
>> I tested here.  On Windows, connected to my primary, I right-click  
>> the secondary domain, go to GroupWise System Maintenance and  
>> Convert Secondary to Primary is available.  If I'm connected to the  
>> secondary the option is not available.
>>
>> On Linux, connected to my primary, I right-click the secondary  
>> domain, to to GroupWise System Maintenance and Convert Secondary to  
>> Primary is available.  And again, if instead I'm connected to the  
>> secondary the option is not available.
>>
>> Danita
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Randy Grein  
>> <randygrein at comcast.net> wrote:
>> That's what I thought, but when I try to do it from a windows  
>> client that CAN connect (last one in the organization with the  
>> netware client) the option is grayed out also. Do I need to connect  
>> to both? It might be simplest to mount the netware volume with the  
>> primary domain from the linux server if that's all I need.
>> Randy Grein
>>
>> On Apr 12, 2010, at 8:55 AM, Danita Zanre wrote:
>>
>>> You have to be connected to the primary to convert a secondary to  
>>> primary.  So if you want to do it from from the Linux server you  
>>> need to mount your NetWare server on Linux, connect to it from the  
>>> Linux ConsoleOne and then do the convert.
>>>
>>> Danita
>>>
>>> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:03 AM, Randy Grein <randygrein at comcast.net 
>>> > wrote:
>>> Maybe I'm being dumb, but I always thought promoting a domain was
>>> easy. Right click on the secondary, Groupwise Utilities, System
>>> Maintenance, select 'Promote Secondary to Primary'. Except it's  
>>> grayed
>>> out if I use ConsoleOne on the Linux server. I can access the option
>>> from a Windows client, but we disabled SAMBA because of corruption
>>> problems and getting it enabled is proving 'difficult'. Am I missing
>>> something, or is this a new feature of Groupwise on Linux? Old  
>>> domain
>>> (primary) is 8.01 on Netware, new secondary is Groupwise 8.01 on  
>>> SLES
>>> 11.
>>>
>>> Randy Grein
>>>
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