From: "Frank Haber" 

1. I didn't do the net setup on any of the existing machines.

2. The setup was once all 98 clients, and originally, ALL the machines bore
ident user- and machine-names.  This was done with the SBS wizard and
floppies, which I think install MS Proxy 2 and lots of evil RAS- and
FAX-sharing stuff.

3. Most of the clients were later replaced with 2kWS machines of the SAME
user and machine names, somehow.

4. I tried this on XP and got stopped cold.  Didn't try the commandline,
though (thanks, John).  I'll play with that next week.  Isn't it strange
how the idea of identical users and machines is just instinctively anathema
to me, but seemed natural to hubby?  Funny, this interface design, eh?

I've never seen a naming error message on boot in this shop.

5. I used a more sensible username on the XP machine I set up. I kept the
old (identical) machine name and server-logon account name.  I did the
usual thing of manually installing the proxy client, and everything came
up.

6. (Another little weirdness) I'd named the C partition on the new machine.
Then I  noticed that this shop used unnamed partitions, and a few mapped
drives on boot.  I blew away my volume name, added the mappings, and
everything worked.  Hours later, I saw that the view of the new box from
all the other machines included the *erased new volume name*.  It hadn't
gone away.

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