On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Richard Welty wrote:
> At 01:32 PM 9/15/98 +0100, Matthew Frost wrote:
> >On Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 12:54:20PM +0100, Philip Hazel wrote:
> >> Underscores are not legal in domain names. The following change was made
> at my previous job, i made our M$ Windows NT weenie fix his exchange
> server. it turns out you have to reinstall it completely to change the name.
>
> best part was, once he converted the _ to a - character, he found out that
> M$ SQL Server doesn't like - in a host name. he ended up having to
> reinstall everything one more time.
apparently you can change the system name (usual reboots apply) for Exchange,
by fiddling with the DNS setup and then diving into the registry; one of our
customers managed this but he was pretty clueful.
A lot of people then go away and upgrade WinNT to Linux and find it works a lot
easier :-)
Paul
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