Help Upgading to xserve

Hi Guys.
I need to upgrade a powermac G4 running 10.3 Server to a G5 xserve environment. Below is the current and new setup:
*Current setup:*
PowerMac G4 running 10.3 Server running AFP and Open Directory from Server Admin.
There are 2 disks in the machine : 40GB drive which is the boot disk and has 8 folders currently being shared via AFP. The second disk is 60GB and has 6 folders currently being shared.
*New Setup*
G5 Xserve with 2 x 250GB drives mirrored RAID running 10.5 Server.
Here are my questions:
1. I need to migrate all info for workgroup manager from the powermac to the xserve - what is the easiest way to do this?
2. I need to combine the shared folders from the 40GB and 60GB drive to the 250GB drive whilst preserving the file permissions - how can this be done?
Any help is much appreciated.

I'm just theorizing here, but I can see two possible paths.
1) set the Xserve up as an Open directory replica, then promote it to master. Use rsync to sync the data -it will preserve permissions, but you'll need. To reset the shares.
2) use ast to clone the old OS drive, then perform an upgrade install. This should preserve the accounts, shares and data from the first drive but you'll still need to rsync the data off the second drive.

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2) What error does RAID Admin pop up? Is it Controller 1 Communications Failure?
3) If you look at the Console does if have an error in there Flushing FS disk buffer returned 0x5?
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Total Number Of Cores: 4
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The testing and the support is the cost here. That's what the vendor-supplied hardware gets you. If you're rolling your own (and I've done that on many occasions), then you own testing and integration and support.
If you have the rack space available and an open bus slot, a PCI-X or PCIe card and an external disk shelf (with or without RAID) can be a reasonable investment. This can be via SAS/SATA controller and a shelf, or FC SAN connection with an external storage controller and a shelf. With an external shelf, you get large(r) external storage, and you can purchase an integrated package providing host support and hardware and (if needed) host software.

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If you go into the System Preferences, and click on the energy settings, on one of the sheets I believe you can turn sleeping on/off. I have it off on all of my machines( ~20 ). The machines have maintenance tasks to do, and I want access whenever, so I see no need of them sleeping; ESPECIALLY a server. Sleeping has had issues for some people waking up, you can search these boards and probably find many messages about it, so IMO, why bother?
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'dual' ethernet cables?
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He then asked me
the question: "will it work without a rack?" Being
honest, I said "It would power on, but it's not
recommended to run that way because it can't cool
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http://www.xrackpro.com/
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Good Point, I knew I was leaving something out of my post...its late and I am really frustrated.
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Thanks for any help!
Mostly Xserve servers Mac OS X (10.4.9) 400 + node Open Directory domain Win & Mac All Mac servers
Macs & PCs (too many!) Mac OS X (10.4.4)
Macs & PCs (too many!) Mac OS X (10.4.4)

Tom,
We destroyed our domain and rejoined all our XP boxes. This did not fix the problem. There appears to be a bug in Apple samba-100.7 (10.4.9).
As a quick fix we extracted the smbd binary and smbd.plist from a 10.4.8 combo update (Note: you could also grab the files from a working 10.4.8 install)...
1. Download the 10.4.8 combo update from http://www.apple.com/support
2. Mount the 10.4.8 update .dmg
3. In Terminal navigate to the folder containing Archive.pax.gz, in our case this was...
cd /Volumes/Mac\ OS\ X\ Server\ 10.4.8\ Combined\ Update/MacOSXSrvrCombo10.4.8PPC.mpkg/Contents/Installers/MacOSXSvrCmbBase10.4.8 PPC.pkg/Contents
4. Copy Archive.pax.gz to a location on your HDD, like Desktop
cp Archive.pax.gz ~/Desktop
5. Unzip Archive.pax.gz
cd ~/Desktop
gunzip Archive.pax.gz
6. Grab a copy of Pacifist and use it to open Archive.pax
7. Using Pacifist, extract (drag and drop) the following files from the archive to your Desktop...
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/smbd.plist
/usr/sbin/smbd
Note: We are going to replace smb in the next step, best backup the current copies of the above files before proceeding.
8. Open Terminal again...
Stop SMB...
sudo serveradmin stop smb
Replace samba with 10.4.8 version...
sudo cp ~/Desktop/smbd /usr/sbin/smbd
sudo cp ~/Desktop/smbd.plist /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/smbd.plist
9. Restart SMB and the process is complete...
sudo serveradmin start smb
Cheers,
Tim

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