SID to Group Name

[LarryDalooza]

I figured I would get the best quality of help here... I am looking for a way to pass a Security Identifier to a function and retrieve it's friendly group name.

I need to get the "Users" group for other language OSes for some folder rights manipulation.

Lar.

[LarryDalooza]

I found this... thanks for your times...

dim objWMIService, colAccounts, objAccount
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\.\root\cimv2")
Set colAccounts = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * From Win32_Group Where SID = 'S-1-5-32-545'")
For Each objAccount in colAccounts
    MsgBox objAccount.Name
...

[GEOSoft]

I found this... thanks for your times...

dim objWMIService, colAccounts, objAccount
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\.\root\cimv2")
Set colAccounts = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * From Win32_Group Where SID = 'S-1-5-32-545'")
For Each objAccount in colAccounts
    MsgBox objAccount.Name
...

Remember, that will only work IF the WMI service is enabled Larry.

[LarryDalooza]

So if there are any alternatives that are more solid, I am still interested.

Lar.

[Valik]

Larry, you can use the Windows API function CreateWellKnownSid().

[cppman]

I've never worked with any of these functions before, but the description of this functions looks almost exactly like what you are asking.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa379166(VS.85).aspx

[LarryDalooza]

I'll have to take this up tomorrow... just hacked in WMI for now.

Lar.