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