You can rename a DC in a 2003 domain. The main thing to be concerned about
is propagation of the change. Netdom is the way to do it:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/325354
If the rename failed you may have something else wrong. I would start with
the regular dcdiag netdiag diagnostics to see what it could be,
Anthony
http://www.airdesk.co.uk





"DEI" <dei@nospam.com> wrote in message
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>I added another DC to my domain. Servers are 2003 R2 and domain is 2003.
>I accidentally misspelled the host name when installing it so after it was
>complete I renamed it. Now I noticed under the domain controllers
>container it doesn't have the correct name and I cannot manage it. Is
>there a way to fix this short of re-installing server 2003?
>