[CentOS] samba question

Fri May 23 07:09:35 UTC 2008
david chong <davidchong144 at gmail.com>

On 5/23/08, John <jses27 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Can you ping the Samba Server by the Server name?
>

Pinging server name, From the server itself can ping.
However from winxp client cannot ping by server name, can only ping by
ip address.

[root at antioch david]# ping -c3 antioch
PING antioch.mc (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from antioch.mc (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.094 ms
64 bytes from antioch.mc (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.068 ms
64 bytes from antioch.mc (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.048 ms

--- antioch.mc ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2000ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.048/0.070/0.094/0.018 ms