Rejoining XP client to Domain

[marvin]

Hi

 

I have an XP client joined to our current domain but it has a wrong name on it and i would like to keep everything in the same format under active directory.

 

Anyway is it as easy as delete the client from AD and then rejoining it as a different name back to the domain again?

 

Thanks

[kmount]

You can rename it whilst it's on the domain if you want to keep it's location etc. (Assuming it's not RM CC3).

 

Would that help?

[marvin]

I suppose that could as long as it disappears on the AD and puts the new name to it? Would that happen?

[kmount]

Yup.

 

Right click on my computer, it's under computer name iirc. (on linux atm).

 

Alternatively, you could join a workgroup (would dejoin it from the domain), wipe out the entry from DNS/AD if they were still there (unsure), rename the machine, reboot it, and then rejoin the domain from afresh and put it into the OU that it was in before.

 

With a rename all of that is taken care of.