[WEB4LIB] Ghost and SID's with Windows 2000

[Lane Brannock]

There is an associated product from Symantec "Ghostwalker" that changes the
sids.  Just be sure that you have not connected the PC that the image comes
from to your network until after the image is created.  "Ghostwalker" comes
with the network version of "Ghost".  We've been using it with no problems,
but then we haven't moved to WIN 2000 on a large scale as of yet.

Hope this helps.

--
Lane Brannock, MCP
Huntington Beach Public Library
(714) 536-5215

----- Original Message -----
From: "Isabel Danforth" <danforth at alumni.tufts.edu>
To: "Multiple recipients of list" <web4lib at webjunction.org>
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 4:02 PM
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Ghost and SID's with Windows 2000


> We have purchased 20 new DELL computers with Windows 2000 installed.  We
> decided that using Norton Ghost would save us set up time.   It seems to
> have caused a network problem, however.  Shortly after we plugged in and
> turned on the first 4 PC's, the library network slowed to a horrible
> crawl.  After 15 or 20 minutes it seemed okay.   Later on it did the same
> thing.  Last night similar thing happened and finally we just shut those
> computers down and pulled them off the network.   Our network seems very
> happy again.
>
> One suggestion is that the clone produced identical SIDs on all those
> computers and that ID conflict was causing network collisions.  Has anyone
> out there had a simillar issue?  Do you have any good fixes?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Isabel
>
>