Hal Kaplan wrote:
=> -----Original Message-----
=> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
=> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Newton
=> Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2006 15:05
=> To: ProFox
=> Subject: SID by SID <g>
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=> What I want to do now is the reverse/converse ie ?
=> SIDStringToName("S-1-5-21-57989841-1801674531-839522115-1000"
=> ) should return "Paul Newton"
=>
=> In order to do this I know I will need, amongst others, the following
=> functions:
=>
=> LookupAccountSid IN advapi32
=> ConvertStringSidToSid IN advapi32
=>
=> I will probably need some other functions as well and at
=> this point I am stuck. News2News does not have an entry for
=> ConvertStringSidToSid and while it has has an entry for
=> LookupAccountSid I am not able to get to the accompanying
=> code examples of its use.
=>
=> Any help would be much appreciated - and of course, if
=> anybody thinks that these functions might be useful, I'm
=> willing to out them on Ed's download page.
=>
The only use for this IMHO would be to identify Users in the Registry and
occasionally a user who cannot be identified because of a network problem.
Unfortunately the best way would be the reverse (SID=>PlainLanguage) and you
are having trouble with it.
What are you going to use it for, Paul?
I am just playing around with SIDs, user names, and subkeys of
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList.
I _can_ do this indirectly with WMI (Win32_UserAccount class) but I
wanted a more direct approach using API calls. The subkeys of
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList. are of
the form
S-1-5-21-57989841-1801674531-839522115-1000
and I wanted to be able to translate them to user names ....
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