There is no technical reason you cannot "recycle" a computer name.
Thanks, Brian Desmond [email protected] c - 312.731.3132 Active Directory, 4th Ed - http://www.briandesmond.com/ad4/ Microsoft MVP - https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Brian From: Greg Farber [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 3:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: server 2003 - different domain computer using existing name? Hi. I have a computer on my windows server 2003 domain called "AAA". It runs XP pro, in a PC that we got from our equipment vendor (it is a specialized faxing/emailing computer). We had an issue with AAA and had to get a replacement from the vendor. I named the replacement machine BBB and joined the domain. There is a problem: It seems that a proprietary application is running on another computer, which is compiled to look for the machine called AAA. (it cannot look for numeric addresses) Question: I thought it was bad to "recycle" the same computer name to a different computer when joining a domain, but that seems to be what this situation requires. Is this true? or is there a good way I should go about renaming BBB to AAA? Thanks for any insight. Greg ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
