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Obsolete Releases => SME Server 7.x => Topic started by: Smitro on August 03, 2009, 03:44:02 PM
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Hi all,
After much searching, I give up, I can't find it!
I've renamed one of my workstations on the domain to something else. It failed. So I thought I'd go back. It failed to. (I'll give you more info later, that's not my question).
I have a feeling that these computer names that I was trying are names of previous machines. Is it possible to delete them from the domain, so I can use the names again?
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I've renamed one of my workstations on the domain to something else. It failed. So I thought I'd go back. It failed to. (I'll give you more info later, that's not my question).
Why not give all detail directly? What error message did you receive?
I have a feeling that these computer names that I was trying are names of previous machines. Is it possible to delete them from the domain, so I can use the names again?
You can easily find out what machine names are in use according to your SME Server:
db accounts show | grep machine
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Sorry, I didn't have the error in front of me at the time.
"A device attached to the system is not functioning" when trying to rename the computer and also when trying to re-join it to the domain.
I've now managed to join the work station back onto the domain using another name.
Is it possible for me to safely clean up some of those accounts? There is about 6 in my list that the machine no longer exsit.
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Sorry, I didn't have the error in front of me at the time.
Fair enough.
"A device attached to the system is not functioning" when trying to rename the computer and also when trying to re-join it to the domain.
Strange I have never seen such an error, are you sure that is the exact error message? You can check these messages in the eventlog of the windows system IIRC.
Is it possible for me to safely clean up some of those accounts? There is about 6 in my list that the machine no longer exsit.
I need to check what actions need to be taken for that in the events scripts as I do not know this by head and it is a little late here. Will see if I can give you some clues tomorrow.
Next time please properly unjoin your machine from the network into a workgroup, rename and after that place it in the domain again (do not shortcut here as it requires a few reboots), that should prevent errors in hostname removal AFAIK.