Snow Leopard Server To Mavericks odmigration errors

Hi,
I am currently trying to migrate our old Mac Mini 10.6.8 server to a shiny new Mac Mini Mavericks/3.x server configuration as unfortunately the 10.6.8 Mac Mini is too old to accept Mavericks as an in-place upgrade.
I have prepared a bootable USB disk copy of our existing machine using Carbon Copy Cloner and this has been tested and confirmed to work.
I have booted the new Mac Mini with Mavericks and immediately followed the migration assistant using the above USB disk to migrate everything across. All seems fine at this point and the Mavericks machine boots correctly and is all data/apps are there apart from it obviously not yet having 3.x server installed.
Now I am following the instructions in the following article:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5381
which states that if the original 10.6.8 server was bound to an AD domain that I must run the odmigration tool BEFORE installing server.
This I did using the following command:
sudo /System/Library/Frameworks/OpenDirectory.framework/odmigrationtool -source '/Volumes/SourceServer' -target /
and I get the following errors:
Jun 5 13:13:06 DestServer.school.network odmigrationtool[1176] <Info>: No OpenDirectory configuration files at '/Volumes/SourceServer/Library/Preferences/OpenDirectory/Configurations'
Jun 5 13:13:06 DestServer.school.network odmigrationtool[1176] <Info>: Migration of existing node skipped '/LDAPv3/127.0.0.1'
Jun 5 13:13:06 DestServer.school.network odmigrationtool[1176] <Info>: Migration of existing node skipped '/Active Directory/CLEEVE'
Jun 5 13:13:06 DestServer.school.network odmigrationtool[1176] <Info>: No existing password for 'DestServer$' node '/Active Directory/CLEEVE'
Jun 5 13:13:06 DestServer.school.network odmigrationtool[1176] <Info>: Created new keychain password for 'DestServer$' node '/Active Directory/CLEEVE'
Jun 5 13:13:07 DestServer.school.network odmigrationtool[1176] <Error>: Error migrating sharepoint '/Volumes/SourceServer/private/var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/config/SharePoints/ Administrator's Public Folder.plist' -> '/private/var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/sharepoints/Administrator's Public Folder.plist' (A file with the name “Administrator's Public Folder.plist” already exists.)
Jun 5 13:13:07 DestServer.school.network odmigrationtool[1176] <Error>: Error migrating sharepoint '/Volumes/SourceServer/private/var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/config/SharePoints/ DeploystudioRepos.plist' -> '/private/var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/sharepoints/DeploystudioRepos.plist' (A file with the name “DeploystudioRepos.plist” already exists.)
Jun 5 13:13:07 DestServer.school.network odmigrationtool[1176] <Error>: Error migrating sharepoint '/Volumes/SourceServer/private/var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/config/SharePoints/ MusicShare.plist' -> '/private/var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/sharepoints/MusicShare.plist' (A file with the name “MusicShare.plist” already exists.)
Jun 5 13:13:07 DestServer.school.network odmigrationtool[1176] <Error>: Error migrating sharepoint '/Volumes/SourceServer/private/var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/config/SharePoints/ NetBootClients0.plist' -> '/private/var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/sharepoints/NetBootClients0.plist' (A file with the name “NetBootClients0.plist” already exists.)
Jun 5 13:13:07 DestServer.school.network odmigrationtool[1176] <Error>: Error migrating sharepoint '/Volumes/SourceServer/private/var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/config/SharePoints/ NetBootSP0.plist' -> '/private/var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/sharepoints/NetBootSP0.plist' (A file with the name “NetBootSP0.plist” already exists.)
Jun 5 13:13:07 DestServer.school.network odmigrationtool[1176] <Error>: Error migrating sharepoint '/Volumes/SourceServer/private/var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/config/SharePoints/ Users.plist' -> '/private/var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/sharepoints/Users.plist' (A file with the name “Users.plist” already exists.)
Obviously things don't appear to have gone to plan but I'm guessing the already existserrors are because those files have already been copied by the migration assistant. At this point I have not installed server for obvious reasons.
The other errors and information mean little to me as this is the first one I have ever migrated. My question is, can I do anything about these problems or do I need to rethink the work. Could I simply remove the old server from the active directory before taking a USB clone copy and then reinsert it as the new server afterwards? This is a school configuration so I am working around the school day and need to resolve this before the summer holidays as we are planning a workstation migration to Mavericks then as well and we need the server in place to correctly manage those. Any delay or failure on the server side means the workstations will be delayed also.
Any help and pointers are greatly appreciated.
Kind Regards
Radar

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8) Uncheck the box for Access Control List then click ok
Once you've gone through that rigmarole you can go back into ServerAdmin and fix the permissions for public and Sites folder which should only take a minute or so.
So the moral of this story and as I found out when i ended up calling Enterprise support is that the act of dragging and dropping user home directories from one server to another, or as in your case, from a local machine to a the server isn't anything that apple recommends or supports. you might want to read through the man pages for "Ditto" or so apple tells me, but honestly now that you know, the steps above aren't all that bad. It's true Knowing IS half the battle!
have Fun!
P.S. FWIW If you run into problems and have to call Enterprise Support be prepared for them to tell you to refer to the user Guides. So reading those would be to your advantage even though they aren't the easiest things to understand unlike apple's consumer products user guides

How do I remotely access my Snow Leopard server from my Mountain Lion MacBook Air

Does anyone know of an idiot's guide to setting up a VPN to access my server? I'm running Snow Leopard server in the office and I'd like to be able to access the server, probably just from one computer (MacBook Air runnung Mountain Lion) from home.
I'm not sure if it complicates things or not, but the office is in an area with poor broadband and so the internet connection is via satellite broadband. The set up is a satellite modem into a Gigabit router and the server is connected to the router via an unmanaged switch.
As an aside, I'm considering changing this set up so that the modem plugs into a Time Capsule and the server will connect directly into the TC. The desktops will then run into the server via the unmanaged switch or wirelessly via TC - any thoughts on the best set up here? Are cables into a switch better/worse than using TC's wireless facility.
Is this something that I, as a reasonably competent computer operator but definitely not an IT expert, could do, or should I get someone in to set it up for me?
Thanks in advance
Jim

VPNs aren't particularly special or weird or secret or such. They're "just" a network connection. A sometimes very fussy network connection, but a network connection.
My preference is to use a firewall that includes an embedded VPN server. This for several reasons, as it avoids trying to forward the VPN through a device that's using NAT [1], and it means you can connect to multiple devices on the target LAN, and you can connect even if the OS X Server box is down.
Other folks will forward the VPN through NAT, and use the VPN server that's available in various versions of OS X Server.
Forwarding a VPN through NAT does work, but can also sometimes not work. NAT can cause some types of VPNs to get tossed off when (for instance) there's a second VPN connection arriving.
In various cases everything connects and works the first time, and in other cases it's trial-and-error.
With a VPN-capable firewall (which is a step above your average residential firewall), usually configuring the firewall as a L2TP server or the Cisco protocol, if you want to use the standard OS X or iOS clients. Or PPTP — which is easier to get working — but less secure. Once the firewall and the VPN server is set up — and that's where most of the "fun" is — then the set-up in Network Preferences is (usually) pretty simple.
There are thousands of OS X VPN set-up articles around, but the details all hinge on the particular VPN server, and whether you're going to try to push the VPN through (for instance) that Tome Capsule and its NAT. Until you sort out your VPN target and/or VPN client, and what sort of attacks you're securing against...
As for this case, satellite latency is large. The latency involved is the time it takes to the command or the text from your local Mac to the satellite ~35,786 kilometers up and then ~35,786 kilometers back down, and then the response back again. That's about a quarter second, each way, at the speed of light. Transferring big files is fine (once the connection is open and the transfer gets rolling), but anything interactive — such as a typical use of a VPN — is going to have a noticable lag.
Yes, it'll be easiest to get somebody to work through your requirements and expectations, and initially set this up for you. Or you can use this as an opportunity to read about and learn more about IP routing and networking and VPNs, too.
[1] VPNs seek to ensure that the network connection is secure, and from a known client IP source address to the IP address of the target VPN server. NAT explicitly obscures the network connections, and often has multiple client hosts located behind one IP address. Put another way, the VPN and NAT software implementations are working at cross-purposes.

Windows 7 (Client) map a network drive VPN Snow Leopard Server

Hi,
I have a Mac Mini Snow Leopard Server and are using a VPN service.
My services on the mac os x sls server are: AFP, DNS, Firewall, Open Directory, SMB and VPN.
I can connect the VPN from Mac clients and Windows 7 clients, but I can only map a network drive/share point on Mac´s.
On Windows 7 I get an error: path or name not found ( I am sure using the correct path, same from Mac client that works).
When I am using my internal network LAN I can map a network drive using Windows 7 and Mac but outside over a VPN not (only Mac works).
The only service, at this moment, that I need is File Sharing outside my network LAN using a VPN.
How can I map a network drive from a Windows 7 client using a VPN, is there any Firewall rules / SMB rules / File Sharing rules that I missed on the server side?
Thank You.

I really don't know what are going wrong with my settings. As you said/write it must be an easy setup.
I'm using a Time Capsule and used the Server app to add VPN to the port forwarding also.
When I am connected thru the VPN I tried to ping the Server IP and got no answer from it, from W7 client!?
My Mac's are just working fine with AFP and SMB share points thru the VPN.
I think I have missed some settings from the SMB or Firewall services for VPN with W7 client's or it is a Windows issue.....

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