Changing hostname... Problem

[Olaf]

Hi there,

I changed the hostname of my windows xp machine.

After that i searched the registry and found several entries of the old
hostname which i changed to the new one.
There are no entries in the hosts file.

I can resolve the new name with nslookup, but no more the old one... fine!

But...

From the machine itself i can still ping the old hostname.

Why windows still remembers the old name ?
Any idea where i have to look ?

Regards,

Olaf

 

[Malke]

Hi there,

I changed the hostname of my windows xp machine.

After that i searched the registry and found several entries of the
old hostname which i changed to the new one.
There are no entries in the hosts file.

I can resolve the new name with nslookup, but no more the old one...
fine!

But...

From the machine itself i can still ping the old hostname.

Why windows still remembers the old name ?
Any idea where i have to look ?

Regards,

Olaf

I'm not really sure what you did. To change the machine name of your
computer, go to the System applet in Control Panel and click the tab
"Computer Name". Change the name to what you want and reboot. Are you
talking about something else?

Malke

 

[Olaf]

No, thats exactly what i did.

But somewhere the computer remembers his old name.

As i mentioned i changed some registry entries manually (after changing the
hostname in Control Panel and rebooting), but the system is
still pinging its own ip address when pinging the old name.... strange...

Olaf

 

[Malke]

No, thats exactly what i did.

But somewhere the computer remembers his old name.

As i mentioned i changed some registry entries manually (after
changing the hostname in Control Panel and rebooting), but the system
is
still pinging its own ip address when pinging the old name....
strange...

Interesting. Well, unless the old name was something horrible and
embarrassing, if the computer works fine I wouldn't worry about it.

Malke