How can I view what the Computer SID is in win2000 - to compare against another machine

Hi kevinwood

take a look at this  

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/newsid.shtml

Thanks for the link, I already know a lot about imaging and the need for changing the SID. I just don't know how to view it before hand.

From microsoft,
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/162001/EN-US/


"The machine SID is the prefix of the user account and group account SID'S created on the computer. The machine SID is concatenated with the Relative ID (RID) of the account to create the account's unique identifier."

So, when you look at this key for user accounts, part of the number is your machine SID.

hmmm...interesting, I look at the machines on my network and they all have the same SID - it really looks like this is the user SID as the same user account is on each PC. There must be another SID that is unique for the computer

That worked - thanks