I am trying to add my MS Surface Pro 2 to my home MLM and workgroup and when I try to change it from WORKGROUP to NICHOLS, I get the following error when checking the Brad-Surface name as there was a network error on my normal mobile phone …
I tried to connect both of them to the Internet, but I am not currently connected to the Internet. There is no conflict as there are no other machines with that name and the Brad-Surface name is smart now and for a while I was just trying to change the workgroup name so that I could account for my server and my NAS and cut files from the surface to the NAS and RDP to other machines, usually in the house.
I found this article https://superuser.com/questions/1194568/windows-10-change-my-computer-names and tried to update it using Power Shell with Power Shell system running Windows 10 Pro