Well, your answer is correct but the reasoning is not complete. The reason you get user.newdomain for user.001 And so on is because you can't have 2 directories with the same exact name under the same sub directory. If you joined a domain and got the folder c:\documents and settings\user , then formatted and did a clean install, and then removed the user and computer accounts from the domain, then added them back, then rejoined the machine to the domain with the same computername / user name, you would get the same exact path for the profile - c:\documents and settings\user - so it really doesn't have anything to do with the SID at all :-) -----Original Message----- From: windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Cristian Costea Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 1:54 AM To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [windows2000] Re: Documents and Settings Of course :). File ownership and permissions are stored internally by SIDs and then mapped to whatever object has that SID. Ray at home wrote: > Can/does this happen if an AD user is deleted and a new user is > created with the same username since the SIDs would be different? > > Ray at home > ================================== To Unsubscribe, set digest or vacation mode or view archives use the below link. http://thethin.net/win2000list.cfm ================================== To Unsubscribe, set digest or vacation mode or view archives use the below link. http://thethin.net/win2000list.cfm