On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Andrew S. Baker <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't think that Mark was saying that the local machine SID doesn't > matter ...
Not in those words, but I can't see any other way to interpret things. He said that there was no need to worry about it being unique, and so NewSID is now retired, and the SID functionality is slated to be removed from SYSPREP. > He is pretty much concluding that there are no known scenarios where the > machine SID is needed outside of the machine, and thus no need for it to be > unique across machines. Indeed, and I think that's the problem a lot of people have. There is a world of difference between "There is no known problem" and "It is known there are no problems". -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
