The whole reason I started looking for duplicate SIDs is that I have a random issue on my desktops where explorer.exe will not run when booting the machine. The user gets their wallpaper, but no icons, so they have to get into Task Manager, and kick off a new explorer task. The only thing at the time that I hadn't had a chance to troubleshoot was duplicate SIDs, which is why I went out and grabbed psgetsid.
As for the syntax I used, it was simply psgetsid \\*, which went out and hit all my domain machines. Joe Heaton Employment Training Panel -----Original Message----- From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 11:40 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: NewSID Is there a problem with having duplicate machine SIDs, so long as the domain SIDs are unique? -----Original Message----- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 2:33 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: NewSID There is a machine SID which is unique to a machine, that is generated during installation. That never changes. There is also a domain SID that is generated when a machine joins a domain (for the computer account). ________________________________________ From: John Hornbuckle [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 2:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: NewSID I thought that after a machine was joined to the domain, it got a new SID anyway. Am I confused about that? John Hornbuckle MIS Department Taylor County School District 318 North Clark Street Perry, FL 32347 www.taylor.k12.fl.us -----Original Message----- From: Richard Stovall [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 1:51 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: NewSID Are these on an AD domain? Something is definitely wacky if they are. -----Original Message----- From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 1:42 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: NewSID Ok, here's another aspect of this issue that just came to light. I have servers, which were all built from scratch, no imaging, that have duplicate SIDs. Any ideas how this could have happened? Joe Heaton Employment Training Panel -----Original Message----- From: Andy Ognenoff [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 10:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: NewSID I've only ever used it as part of the cloning process so I can't speak to the other scenarios. - Andy O. >-----Original Message----- >From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 12:32 PM >To: NT System Admin Issues >Subject: RE: NewSID > >I'm going to be implementing it as a part of the cloning process from here >on, but right now, I have around 60 machines in use that I need to run it >on. > >Does it need to be run under an admin login, or does it grant itself the >rights it needs? Will runas work well enough, or do I need to be logged >into the machine? > >Joe Heaton >Employment Training Panel ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
