Patent ID: 6968370

Claim:
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.