sxmboxexp : User name is ambiguous

[jplorier]

HI,

I have two users: Mark Douglas and his son Mark J Douglas with thier respective accounts douglas and mdouglas.
When I try to backup their accounts it tells "sxmboxexp : User name is ambiguous" even when their usernames and names are different (the only difference is their middle name).
When I backup Mark J Douglas everythis is all right, the problem is with the father.
Appreciate any hand because it happens to be the owner of the company and his son, so you can guess how hurry I am.
Thanks

[mikethebike]

you need to do enough to make the entry unique in teh command.

I have not used sxmboxexp, is there an option to place a space in the initials field?

You may want to use the comamnd line:

omcpoutu -n s=douglas/g=mark/i=" -f filename

Mick

[jplorier]

Thanks for your answer.
I'll try that command. Do you know if there's any difference with sxmboxexp sxmboxinp?. It seems you can backup everything with your command without the need of the sxmbox commands.

[dkelly]

sxmboxexp is the replacement for omcpoutu since we released Scalix 11. It provides more flexibility in what you can backup and restore.

Cheers

Dave

[jplorier]

The question is that if I backup an account with omcpoutu because I can't do it with sxmbox exp because of the "sxmboxexp : User name is ambiguous" problem, wouldn't I have the same problem if I try to use sxmboximp to do a partial restore?
So the thing would be to find out the solution to the first problem and "tell" sxmboxexp wich account should backup avoiding the name resolution conflict.
Can you tell me how to solve this without telling the users to change their names?
Thanks

[gren]

If you can specify the name uniquely in a way that omcpoutu understands, you will be able to use the same specification for the name for sxmboxexp. You may find the common name (CN) useful in differentiating users.

e.g.

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sxmboxexp -u 'CN=Mark Douglas' -a MarkDouglasSeniour.mbox

If it still complains about uniqueness, try using the appropriate line from the output of the following command :

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omshowu -m all|grep -i douglas

The output is likely to be similar to :

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Mark Douglas /mailnode/CN=Mark Douglas
Mark J. Douglas /mailnode/CN=Mark J. Douglas


and you could then use :

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sxmboxexp -u 'Mark Douglas /mailnode/CN=Mark Douglas' -a MarkDouglasSeniour.mbox

Regards,
Gren.

[jplorier]

Thanks Greg, you really helped me. I really want to thank you.
Best regards,

Juan Pablo