Post-Upgrade Procedures - Novell OPEN ENTERPRISE SERVER 2.0 SP2 - UPGRADING TO OES-PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTATION GUIDE 12-2009 Implementation Manual

If you move an NSS system pool cross-platform, any volumes it contains function as data volumes
on the OES server, including the SYS: volume.
You can move storage devices containing NSS volumes between NetWare servers and OES 2 SP2
servers. When you move an unshared device to a different server, you must decommission its
volumes in eDirectory for the current server, then recommission them for the new server. For shared
NSS pools and volumes, Novell Cluster Services provides this service automatically.
NSS volumes that were originally created on NetWare can be moved cross-platform to an OES
server. But only volumes that were originally created on NetWare can be moved back from OES to
NetWare.
Pool Snapshots Cannot Be Moved
NSS pools that are a source pool or a destination pool for NSS pool snapshots on NetWare cannot
move cross-platform if you want to keep the pool snapshots. A pool snapshot is no longer available
if you move its source pool or destination pool to an OES server. The snapshot no longer works even
after you move the pools back to NetWare.
Before you move an NSS pool cross-platform, make sure you delete any of its snapshots stored on
other pools and any snapshots for other pools it might contain.

4.5 Post-Upgrade Procedures

After files are transferred, file permissions might need to be reset. As discussed earlier, Linux file
system permissions are different from and not as granular as those used by NetWare. This becomes
especially apparent for directories where multiple groups previously had access to the data within a
file. On Linux file systems, this is not possible, so an alternative must be found.
Novell recommends the following permissions as a starting point. You might need to change the
permissions to better fit your needs.
File Permissions Recommended for File Types
Table 4-1
Type of files
Home directories, such as
User files, such as /home/userid/myfile
Shared directory for a team (where the group is used for
access.)
Shared team files (where the group is used for access.)
/home/userid
Permissions:
user group other numeric value
700
rwx --- ---
rw- r-- --- 740
rwx rwx --- 760
rw- rw- --- 660
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