Re: Explorer owners column shows SID instead of name
- From: Andrew McLaren <Andrew.McLaren@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 10:49:17 -0700
Hi James,
Just a comment/question, in addition to the good advice in John John's replies ... is the machine joined to an Active Directory domain? Such as a corporate network?
SID's for local accounts and certain "well-known" accounts (eg Administrator, Guest, etc) are created and stored locally. You can find them under ProfileList in the Registry, as John John says.
SIDs for domain accounts are stored on the Domain Controllers. To translate teh SID into a friendly name for display purposes, an app (such as Explorer in this case) needs to make an RPC call to the Domain Controller. If all the DCs are offline, or there is a network problem, you can see raw SIDs instead of friendly names. I have certainly seen this in the past! However, once the workstation can access Active Directory on the DC again, the SIDs will go back to appearing as friendly names; and life is good again.
Hope it helsp a bit,
Andrew
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