I just got to my old messages and did not see a response to your query. You
can use the computer names to ping only if the name to IP address
translation is available. This is usually done by a DNS server, but can also
be provided on each computer by the use of the HOSTS file that is in the
Windows\system32\drivers\etc directory.

Hope this is of some help.

Peter
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-----Original Message-----
 I just set up a network of two machines for a friend -- one NT 4.0 Server,
one Windows98 client. I set up TCP/IP using static addresses. Each machine
appears in Network Neighborhood in the domain I created; I mapped the
network drives, and both machines can exchange files. Purely for fun, I
decided to ping both boxes, using the machine names. The NT box can ping

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