<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Hi Thanks for the patch, but no, it doesn't fix the problem. Going home now, but I'll be available tomorrow if you have any more ideas for me to try out :-) Thanks, Noel Grandin Tor Lillqvist wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:4E5DFC7402000028000A62C2@novprvoes0310.provo.novell.com" type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">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. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Well, "wrong" or "right" is a matter of opinion here, I guess... The documentation doesn't exactly mention this for LookupAccountName(),, true, but on the other hand, I guess that in general member computers also are "accounts" in the domain, or something, so it makes sense from that point of view... Anyway, great catch! Does this help? diff --git a/sal/qa/osl/security/osl_Security.cxx b/sal/qa/osl/security/osl_Security.cxx index ea59027..f5da4d9 100644 --- a/sal/qa/osl/security/osl_Security.cxx +++ b/sal/qa/osl/security/osl_Security.cxx @@ -464,8 +466,11 @@ void MyTestPlugInImpl::initialize( CPPUNIT_NS::TestFactoryRegistry *, // Set the count variables to the buffer sizes and retrieve the SID. cbSid = dwSidBufferSize; cchDomainName = dwDomainBufferSize; + WCHAR wszComputerName[MAX_COMPUTERNAME_LENGTH+1]; + DWORD nComputerNameSize = MAX_COMPUTERNAME_LENGTH + 1; + GetComputerNameW( wszComputerName, &nComputerNameSize ); if (LookupAccountNameW( - NULL, // Computer name. NULL for the local computer + wszComputerName, wszAccName, pSid, // Pointer to the SID buffer. Use NULL to get the size needed, &cbSid, // Size of the SID buffer needed. --tml </pre> </blockquote> <hr>Disclaimer: <a href="http://www.peralex.com/disclaimer.html">http://www.peralex.com/disclaimer.html</a> </body> </html>