Secure Copy is one of the only tools available that will migrate local groups while copying files and their permissions. (A local group is local to the machine it was created on.) If a local group has permissions on a file in your source server, Secure Copy will create the local group on the destination server, an Active Directory domain, or Windows NT 4.0 domain and modify the permissions list on the destination file to reflect the newly created local group.
If you were to use the "scopy.exe", "rcopy" or "robocopy.exe" programs from the NT resource kit, every local group would appear as "Account Unknown" in the destination file's permissions list. If the local group name already exists on the destination server, you can be prompted for a new name or select a prefix or suffix naming convention.
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