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Name: sameer
Date: July 24, 2001 at 22:25:18 Pacific
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I purchased a second hand pentium2 system running on win2k server, it had a domain already, but i want to change the domain name as well as the computer name. Anyhelp will be appreciated.
with regards
sameer



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Name: Mike W
Date: July 24, 2001 at 22:56:20 Pacific
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The only way to rename a W2K Domain controller is to run DCPROMO to remove Active Directory. Then rename the machine. If you want it to again become a domain controller, run DCPROMO again to re-install Active Directory.

-MW


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