Update: Machine accounts invalid

Gerald W. Carter cartegw at Eng.Auburn.EDU
Thu May 21 12:53:45 GMT 1998


On Thu, 21 May 1998, Dana Canfield wrote:

> Are you using ghostwalker or something similar to change the machine's SID on
> each machine?
> As I understand it, changing the machine name is not enough.  When you use
> ghost or other
> imaging software, the SID stays the same as the original machine you cloned
> until you drop out of the domain, then
> re-join.  At least, that's my understanding.
> 

See http://www.sysinternals.com for a free utility oto change machine
SID's. Comes with source




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                            Gerald ( Jerry ) Carter	
Engineering Network Services                           Auburn University 
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