question about machine hostid in smbpasswd Samba 2.0.6a

Paul J Collins pjdc at eircom.net
Fri Aug 4 16:43:52 GMT 2000


>>>>> "Gerry" == Gerry E George <ggeorge at digisolv.com> writes:

    Gerry> As I recall, if you're using "Ghost" software, it changes
    Gerry> the SID for you.  I think it uses a randomly generated SID,
    Gerry> thus eliminating the problems associated with multiple
    Gerry> duplicate SID's on a network.

Ghost doesn't change the SID.  You need to use a separate tool, called
GhostWalker, which is a DOS application.  I prefer NewSID because it
uses the NT APIs to do the dirty work, hence it is slighty more
future-proof than GhostWalker.

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