UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi folks!

I'm new in this forum and in the UNIX-world too!!
I've got a real problem:

I have to read out datas like name and e-mail-adress from a Windows- Server from the active directory and put this information into a file.
This file should be moved (or copied) on a Unix- Server...
But I don't know, which format (file-ending) this file should have, that the Unix- Server can read it!?

Please help me!
Thanks ... I'll be happy for EVERY little help (also links to pages odr sth like this)

Greets Nicole

From what I can recall from working with Active Directory under Windows 2000, you can export a lot of stuff to CSV (comma separated values) files.

There is a command called "csvde" that should do what you want - there is a lot of information here. It should be present on Windows 2000 and 2003 Servers, and Windows XP.

Then it'd be a simple case of FTP'ing the file to your UNIX box.

Cheers
ZB

The OP is probably talking about the "line-terminating character" issue in heterogeneous computing environments.

Yes. If you use FTP to transfer a text file created on Windows to the Unix server, and that ASCII transfer mode is enabled for the transfer, the file transferred to the Unix server should have the correct end-of-line. You should not need to do any fiddling with the end-of-line as the FTP protocol takes care of this for you already.

Otherwise, if the file is transferred verbatim onto the Unix server, you can always find some third-party utilities for converting to the Unix end-of-line (such as dos2unix).

Thanks for your help!

I've found what I've searched for:
http://docs.hp.com/en/B9106-90008/newaliases.1M.html

Greets