david chong wrote: > 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. Irrevelant to network problems FYI. > However from winxp client cannot ping by server name, can only ping by > ip address. Okay, no network problems it seems. Do you have netbios over tcp/ip enabled on your windows xp box?