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It's been a little while since I've worked with SBS 4.5, but I did have a similar problem occur a time or two. My first question is are you creating startup disks from within SBS and installing them on the desktop/laptop computers? If so, have youtried creating a new disk with the computer name you want to use? As for the setup message reappearing. Have you gone into Add/Remove programs? I think the setup program is listed in there. Hopefully this will maybe give you some direction. Good luck!

Try this - delete the computer account from the server and create a new computer on the server, create a setup disk (although this is not further required). On the laptop, change from a domain to a workgroup in Control Panel/Network. Boot the laptop. Then change back to a domain with the computer name created above on the server. This should work.

When you install clients through the sbs console it adds an install script to the login of every user so teh server can push down software like outlook or the fax sharing client or the ISA client if this is sbs2000. To disable this go into active dir. users and computers and take out the smallbiz login script and add your own to map drives and printers and things.