Stony Brook NetID

Stony Brook faculty, staff, and students have a NetID username and NetID password which they can use to access various computing resources.
** This does not apply to e-mail! **

Your NetID and your SOLAR ID are two important identifiers. Each ID has its own password and its own special uses.

• Your SOLAR ID is your Stony Brook ID number which can be found on your ID card. It is used for your personal information. If you are a student, you use it for things such as: class registration and scheduling, your bill, etc. If you are an employee, you use it for things such as your paycheck, vacation and sick time accruals, class rosters, grade submittal, etc.


• NetID is used to access University services such as: SINC Site computers and printing, MySBfiles, Blackboard, ResNet, library databases, sunysb.edu administrative shares, dial-in services and VPN. In the very near future, you will also be able to use your NetID to access Softweb.

Information regarding your NetID and NetID password can be obtained by logging into SOLAR with your Stony Brook ID and SOLAR password. On the SOLAR homepage, click NetID Maintenance under Security and Personal Data .

Staff:  If you currently sign on to the SUNYSB.EDU domain you already have a NetID and NetID password that you are using to sign on to this domain. You do not have to do anything but set your security question in SOLAR. If you do not currently sign on to the SUNYSB.EDU domain you will have to set your security question and your initial NetID password. Click here to find out how to do this in SOLAR .

Why is this good news?

The University has developed a central authentication system for various computing resources on campus. In the past, while most systems required the same username, you had to log into each account to set your password. Now, you will only need to log into one system to set a password for many. ** Remember, this does not apply to e-mail - yet **

The computing resources include:

Log into SOLAR today and click NetID Maintenance under Security and Personal Data access your NetID information.