Unjoining windows domain

[SWFu]

I have a problem which has been bothering me for some time now...

I have a remote windows server 2003 which was once part of an old deprecated domain, the problem is that I need to unjoin it from the domain, when trying this I get an error messege that the 'domain controller cannot be contacted' etc. After googling I found a claimed way to force it using winbatch but alas this did not work either.

Does anyone know of a way to unjoin it without getting it from the remote site and doing a fresh install?

Thanks

 

[Helenp1983]

In active directory under the computers container, if you delete the machine, it is not longer conected to the domain,

but it sounds like it can't conect the doamin any way.

are the required ports open and is the dns set correctly

 

[TheLad]

Are you trying to make it a workgroup server when you get the error? Please can you detail the process you are following?

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[lhuegele]

Have you tried just joining it to the new domain?