Re: Does XP Professional require each workstation on a network to have a unique SID?

From: Jim Watson (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/10/04 

Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 07:31:13 -0800

Thank you so very much for your input.
     
     ----- Robert Moir wrote: -----
     
     Jim Watson wrote:
> I was informed just today that I am soon to be receiving 30 new
> workstations which will have Windows XP Professional installed on
> them. This will be my first experience with XP Professional. When I
> got my first exposure to Windows 2000 Professional, I quickly found
> that each Win2k workstation had to have its own unique SID in order
> to join to, and participate, on my company's network.
>> Does Windows XP Professional require each workstation on the network
> to have its own unique SID? If so what utilities (preferably free
> ones) are there to generate a new SID for XP Professional
> workstations?
>> I'm currently using a free download called 'NewSID' to generate SIDs
> for all my Win2k worstations. Perhaps I could use THAT ultility to
> generate SIDS on Windows XP Professional workstations.
     
     Yes each machine should have its own SID. I'm sure newSid will work with a
     update maybe.
     
     
     

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