I'm looking for some help on the following.

We are moving Appx 3,000 user's folders from 20+ NT 4.0 Servers to 1 NT 2000 Compaq SAN Server.

Resource Kit utilities DO NOT work. Permcopy and others work fine from 4.0 to 4.0 or from 2000 to 2000, but not when going from 4.0 to 2000

The user accounts are all global accounts.
We plan to restore the data and permissions (hopefully) from Veritas Backup Exec.
This does not get us the new SHARES or SHARE Permissions, or change the User Manager settings. Yes, Lonkero I have seen your post on only using KiXtart for this, but I would rather keep the built-in NT Mechanism rather then rely upon the KiXtart that may or may not always run. i.e. I want to recreate all my hidden$ shares.

As I see it I can probably either do like a DIR /B command to a text file and then parse it and have KiXtart shell and run NET SHARE and then shell and run XCALCS against the user names. If anyone has completed code for such a task, and or could assist me in creating such code I would greatly appreciate it. I'm not sure how to set the Share permissions though since they can not be done via the command line that I'm aware of except with util like PERMCOPY which does not work going from different OS versions.

I don't really want to use the SHOWMEMBERS utility either, since we have many accounts that are no longer valid. I only want to create for valid directories that currently exist.

In our SAN Server we have 2 volumes for user folders. A-M Users go on one volume and N-Z go on another volume. All of the SHARED data folders is another animal I will tackle next at another time.

Also, on another note. Does anyone know how to tell or get back what is the longest directory and or file name that exist on a volume? i.e. there is a 254 character limit that we don't want to run in to on our new systems, but we are taking up 20 characters with our new naming convention, before laying down the new SHARED data.

TIA for any and all help... We start this Friday night