Re: Unique SIDs (was great utilities for XP admin)

From: John E. Weber <johnweber_at_berkeley.edu>
Date: Fri Oct 28 2005 - 14:31:28 PDT

Let me clarify...there are actually two SIDs, one for the machine when
it's on the domain and one for the local "stand-alone" box.

Given that, we still use Microsoft Sysprep to change the SID for our
local workstations. It works great!

John

Jon Forrest wrote:
> John E. Weber wrote:
>> Did you add them to a domain? If you did, it generates a new SID.
>
> I did add them to a domain but I wasn't aware that this generates
> a new SID. If this is true then what's the value of the newsid.exe
> program? Is the issue that I wouldn't have been able to put
> a cloned computer in the domain if I had cloned it after it
> had been added to a domain?
>
> Jon
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