Renaming during Machine Authentication

[Phil Mayers]

Your email client is mangling the quoting, which makes it really hard to 
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>> So this is a full host/name.domain.com now - what did you change?

> as per above i added the dns suffix to the computer (under name
> change...more)

Just renaming the machine won't help.

Is the machine a member of a windows domain? If it is, you shouldn't be 
able to do this renaming. If it isn't, machine auth will NEVER WORK.