<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Hi This appears to be a windows weirdity related to the fact that my account name and my machine name is the same. Under this situation, the LookupAccountName API call will return the wrong answer. See here: <a href="http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/ntbugtraq/1998-1999/msg00516.html">http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/ntbugtraq/1998-1999/msg00516.html</a> Regards, Noel. Tor Lillqvist wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:4E5DF68202000028000A62AA@novprvoes0310.provo.novell.com" type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">strUserID: S-1-5-21-3395787511-4075999146-953599952 comes from qa/osl/security/osl_Security.cxx strID: S-1-5-21-3395787511-4075999146-953599952-1000 comes from osl/w32/security.c </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Hmm, for me, if I add code to just print out the aMessage even if the assertion doesn't fail, I see: strUserID: S-1-5-21-2895500082-1622916122-3903545024-1000, strID: S-1-5-21-2895500082-1622916122-3903545024-1000 weird... --tml </pre> </blockquote> <hr>Disclaimer: <a href="http://www.peralex.com/disclaimer.html">http://www.peralex.com/disclaimer.html</a> </body> </html>