I came across a DEC 3000 recently. It was running OpenVMS. It has an odd host name (WPCQ), i think. I asked a friend who knows VMS to change it for me. I gave him telnet access. He was trying to change it to 'below'. However, he somehow messed up and now it won't boot. Actually, it will, but it gives me a 'User Authorization Error' when I try to log on. Can anybody help me? What are the steps to change a hostname?

Well,..... It's easy to change just the nodename, but a lot of applications needs to be reconfigured, like DECnet, TCPIP,........ OK,.......to get you going..... >>> boot -flag 0,1 'device' SYSBOOT> SHOW SCSNODE SYSBOOT> SET SCSNODE "new_name" SYSBOOT> SET /STARTUP OPA0: SYSBOOT> CONTINUE this will finally get you a "$" $ SPAWN $ SET DEF [VMS$COMMON.SYS$STARTUP] $ @VMS$INITIAL-050_VMS $ SET DEF SYS$SYSTEM $ MC AUTHORIZE UAF> now change your account UAF> EXIT $ MCR SYSGEN SYSGEN> SET /STARTUP SYS$SYSTEM:STARTUP.COM SYSGEN> WRITE CURRENT SYSGEN> EXIT Now it's time for a reboot.... If the node ends up with SYSBOOT> just type in CONTINUE. Hopefully you now has a node with a correct name and that you can login. You need to change the nodename in the file SYS$SYSTEM:MODPARAMS.DAT, otherwise you get the old name back next time you run AUTOGEN.

Let's talk about the different steps when the the node is up and running. You can mail me if you need faster support.

I got the computer to boot! And the node name is correct. Thank you!

Oops. I just found out that the Batch queue sitll thinks that the node name is WKRQ. What can I do to fix this?

Do you mean the queue has on=WKRQ ? Do a STOP/QUE/RESET 'queue' START/QUE/ON='newname::' 'queue' or a STOP/QUE/RESET 'queue' DELETE/QUE 'queue' INIT/QUE/BATCH 'queue'