Moving users from one machine to another

I am trying to move users from a Solaris 2.6 box to a new Solaris 9 box. I tried moving /etc/passwd /etc/shadow and /etc/group to the new box, but when I try to login I get the following error in /var/adm/messages
Mar 17 17:10:15 host.name sshd[1573]: [ID 800047 auth.error] error: Could not get shadow information for NOUSER
I also tried running pwconv to make a new shadow file from the passwd file.. no good.
How do I move these users to this new machine?

You shouldn't really have overwritten the whole passwd / shadow / group files - did you back them up first?
If so, reinstate them and then just copy the entries you require.
You'll also need the home directories for each user - if they're all in the same place, eg /export/home then you could tar it up and copy it over....
tar cvf /tmp/home.tar /export/home
compress /tmp/home.tar
copy /tmp/home.tar.Z to new box and untar it.

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You are asking a lot of questions about AD. Do you know how to do this in AD with D tools?
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http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/scriptcenter/dd793612.aspx
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+The machines are bound to W2k Server with AD.+
This could be a telling statement although without further information it would be hard to say?
What I'm assuming from this is that current mac clients are bound to Active Directory. This would mean that user accounts exist on the Server and not locally. In which case there would be nothing to transfer other than the local admin account - again assuming you want the applications installed on the current client macs transferring over to the new client macs.
To be honest it would be easier and less hassle to create a new local admin account and install compatible software fresh. Use the same tools you used to 'bind' the old client macs to Active Directory for the new client macs.
+We do have Remote Desktop BTW+
You could utilize this to (a) name all the new mac clients with appropriate hostnames and (b) 'bind' new mac clients by issuing dsconfigad from the command line. If this seems like too much hard work then you could simply exercise your legs and walk round each one in turn.
Even if your current mac clients are configured with Mobile Accounts (locally cached network accounts) this would still not be a problem as you can manually or automatically sync the locally cached networked home folder back to the server and then log in with that account again on the new mac clients. The home folder should then be cached locally.
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MY HARDWARE:
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