Method of transferring resources between different operation systems

• US 6,968,370 B2
• Filed: 03/24/2001
• Issued: 11/22/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 01/17/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: OL Security LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Tuan-Hui Wu
• Inventors: Wu, Tuan-Hui
• Primary Examiner(s): Gaffin, Jeffrey
• Assistant Examiner(s): MARTINEZ, DAVID E
• Application Number:
  US09/815,833
• Publication Number:
  US 20020133574A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,704 Days
• Field of Search: 709220-222, 719/319, 707/1, 707/10, 707/204, 707/205, 717/147, 345/700, 345/733, 345/735, 345/736, 345/2.1, 345/2.2, 345/961
• US Class Current: 709/220
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/10 File systems; File servers

Abstract

A method for transferring resources between a first group of computers executing a first operating system and a second group of computers executing a second operating system is provided. Each group of computers has at least one file server executing its respective operating system such as a WINDOWS SERVER (including NT, 2000, XP, and all descended server OS) operating systems or a LINUX operating system. The resources of a first file server in the first group including multiple configurations, files and directories are first transferred to a second file server in the second group. A human-computer interface control program running on the file server in the second group is then provided for administrating the transferred resources on the file server. The human-computer interface control program executed in the second operating system on the second file server has a user interface identical to the resource administration program executed in the first operating system to ensure the integrity of the configurations, files and directories transferred to the second file server of the second group.

Claims

1. A method of transferring resources between a first group of computers executing a first operating system and a second group of computers executing a second operating system, comprising the steps of:

(a) transferring resources including multiple configurations, files and directories on a first file server of the first group to a second file server of the second group; and

(b) executing a human-computer interface control program in the second operating system on the second file server for administrating the transferred resources, said interface control program having a same user interface as a user interface used in administrating resources on the first file server;

wherein said step (a) further comprises the steps of;

(a1) obtaining user configurations including password and group configurations of the first operating system in the first file server;

(a2) executing a file sharing program in the second operating system on the second file server to add the user configurations obtained in said step (a1) into user configurations of the second file server; and

(a3) executing the file sharing program in the second operating system on the second file server to write the group configurations obtained in said step (a1) into a group configuration file used in the second operating system of the second file server.

2. A method of transferring resources between a first group of computers executing a first operating system and a second group of computers executing a second operating system, comprising the steps of:

(a) transferring resources including multiple configurations, files and directories on a first file server of the first group to a second file server of the second group; and

(b) executing a human-computer interface control program in the second operating system on the second file server for administrating the transferred resources, said interface control program having a same user interface as a user interface used in administrating resources on the first file server;

wherein said step (a) further comprises the steps of;

(a1) obtaining virtual directory configurations and corresponding actual directory configurations of the first operating system in the first file server;

(a2) executing a file sharing program and a hypertext transfer protocol server software in the second operating system on the second file server to write the virtual directory configurations and the corresponding actual directory configurations obtained in said step (a1) into a hypertext transfer protocol configuration file and an access configuration file of the hypertext transfer protocol server software respectively; and

(a3) setting a default directory in the second file server and copying the virtual directory configurations and the corresponding actual directory configurations in the first file server to the default directory.

3. A method of transferring resources between a first group of computers executing a first operating system and a second group of computers executing a second operating system, comprising the steps of:

(a) transferring resources including multiple configurations, files and directories on a first file server of the first group to a second file server of the second group; and

(b) executing a human-computer interface control program in the second operating system on the second file server for administrating the transferred resources, said interface control program having a same user interface as a user interface used in administrating resources on the first file server;

wherein said step (a) further comprises the steps of;

(a1) obtaining virtual directory configurations and corresponding actual directory configurations of the first operating system in the first file server;

(a2) executing a file sharing program and a file transfer protocol server software in the second operating system on the second file server to write the virtual directory configurations and the corresponding actual directory configurations obtained in said step (a1) into a file transfer access directory and a file host directory of the second operating system respectively; and

(a3) setting a default directory in the second file server and copying all actual directories in the actual directory configurations and files under all actual directories in the first file server to the default directory.

4. A method of transferring resources between a first group of computers executing a first operating system and a second group of computers executing a second operating system, comprising the steps of:

(a) transferring resources including multiple configurations, files and directories on a first file server of the first group to a second file server of the second group; and

(b) executing a human-computer interface control program in the second operating system on the second file server for administrating the transferred resources, said interface control program having a same user interface as a user interface used in administrating resources on the first file server;

wherein the human-computer interface control program in said step (b) further comprises at least a program having a user interface identical to a user interface of an IIS (Internet Information Server) program in the first operating system for execution in the second file server to give instructions for displaying virtual directories and corresponding actual directories transferred to the second file server in said step (a).

5. A method of transferring resources between a first group of computers executing a first operating system and a second group of computers executing a second operating system, comprising the steps of:

(a) transferring resources including multiple configurations, files and directories on a first file server of the first group to a second file server of the second group; and

(b) executing a human-computer interface control program in the second operating system on the second file server for administrating the transferred resources, said interface control program having a same user interface as a user interface used in administrating resources on the first file server;

wherein the human-computer interface control program in said step (b) further comprises at least a program for execution in the second file server to give instructions to virtual directory configurations and actual directory configurations of a file transfer protocol server software and revoke authority to users using the FTP (file transfer protocol) server software.

6. A method of transferring resources between a first group of computers executing a first operating system and a second group of computers executing a second operating system, comprising the steps of:

(a) transferring resources including multiple configurations, files and directories on a first file server of the first group to a second file server of the second group;

(b) executing a human-computer interface control program in the second operating system on the second file server for administrating the transferred resources, said interface control program having a same user interface as a user interface used in administrating resources on the first file server;

(c) executing a program on the second file server for setting multiple parameters of dynamic host configuration protocol;

(d) writing the multiple parameters into a dynamic host configuration protocol file of the second operating system in the second file server; and

(e) executing a dynamic host configuration protocol software for the second operating system in the second file server.