NetWare migration tool cannot find the domain controller.

A. When the NetWare migration tool (nwconv.exe) is run it tries to establish a connection to the domain controller, or specifically the ADMIN$ share. If it fails the error:

Cannot connect to server:
The Network name cannot be found

The Admin$ share can be disabled by setting AutoShareServer to 0 on the domain controller. To fix this perform the following:

You should now reboot however if that is not convenient just type

C:> net share admin$

which will create the share now and thanks to the registry change it will also be created at reboot time.

If AutoShareServer was already 1 or did not exist the it may be just admin$ has been corrupted so again type the command

C:> net share admin$

to recreate.