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Is there a way to discover the User Name on an account that was deleted?

Hi,
I was wondering if there was a way to discover the username for an account that was accidentally deleted by the S-1-5-21-........number? An account was accidentally deleted, but there is still reminence of the account in security permissions of folders, but it only displays the S-1-5-21-.....number of the account. I would like to know what account this was so I could recreate the user account and reattach it to the folders.

Note: This is not on a domain, it is a locally created account on a Windows 2000 Server for access certain folders.

Thank you for your time.

Have a great day.

Bob

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Zuhir Elgmati

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The best way to handle this would be to replace the old SID with that of a new account using the utility SUBINACL.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e8ba3e56-d8fe-4a91-93cf-ed6985e3927b

For example, the command below replaces a SID with a new account for all files and folders on the C: drive.

subinacl /subdirectories c:\* /replace=S-1-5-21-9618458842-4447384536-25574518-1000=newaccountname

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rsnellman

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Thanks very very much. It was your second link you provided that helped me find exactly what I was looking for. It was easy and best of all, already built-in to the OS.

Thanks again.

Bob

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Out of curiosity, which of those links got you a working solution?