Re: Ok, stupid question time....

Jeff Brissette ( nblade@inficad.com )
Fri, 13 Nov 1998 10:12:52 -0700

At 08:42 AM 11/13/98 -0800, you wrote:
>I know you can demote a PDC to a BDC (provided you have a BDC to promote),
>but can you demote a BDC to a standalone computer? Or, is the only way to do
>this a reformat and rebuild?
>

Yes the only way to make either a PDC or BDC into a member server is to do
a reinstall. You don't have to do a reformat , IF AND ONLY IF, you use a
different dir. For example say \WINNT.SRV. Otherwise yes you do have to
reformat at least the system partiation.