Remove Server Name from Microsoft Windows Network?

[sincityharley]

Ok so I learned the first rule or so someone told me today after I already screwed up. "Never test on a live network" I was playing around with Windows 2000 server and its domain controller aspects. I inadvertantly had my server plugged into our main network which is a big no no. Anyhow so I set up a bunch of test accounts and played around. When I was done I did a dcpromo and demoted the domain controller back to a standard server and then took it off the network. Somehow though in the Microsoft Windows Netwrork window my test server still shows up. I am unable to delete it even though the server is no longer on the network. Please any help on removing it would be so much appreciated. Below is a link to a screen shot of the server I am trying to remove as i was unable to attach it. Any helo is much appreciated. thanks

http://www.sincityharley.com/images/untitled.jpg

[chilifrei64]

This could be a number of things.. most of which you just need to give it some time.

If you really wanted to get rid of it immediately you could speed it up by removing any cached entries in dns.... removing the lease in DHCP for the computers in the old domain, restart the Windows Browser service on the computer you are on..... ipconfig /flushdns. Remove the entry in WINS

Most of these things will eventually work themselves out without user intervention though. If it is still there a day from now then I would double check what you did because there might be another computer on that domain that you didnt remove and is keeping that entry in there.

[valter]

It will dissapear on the next server boot ... just give it some time ...