I have a Win2000 Sever, the full computer name is xserver.xoncord.loc. I have able to ping the IP address of the NIC from my 98 workstation, but not the domain. Could someone help me. Thanks!

If you can ping by IP address but not by computer name it's a DNS issue.

I'm not sure what you mean by, " I have able to ping the IP address of the NIC from my 98 workstation, but not the domain " depending on what you ping (an ip or a name, and now with 2000 a FQDN even) affects your results. A WINS server on your network registers NetBIOS names from other workstations and servers on your network and resolves them to IP addresses. Wins was supposed to be replaced in Windows 2000 by the Active Directory and it's global catalog, but support has been included in Windows 2000 for legacy applications and services that rely on WINS If you have NON windows 2000, XP clients - you'll need WINS if you want to use Netbios names to IP address (or LMHost files). With 2000 though it is said you do NOT require wins because of Integrated Active Directory DNS. So, if you have Active Directory Integrated functioning, you should be able to ping the Full machine domain name like Ping xserver.xoncord.loc (instead of just xserver). There's a few stipulations to all of this. Like DHCP is configured to, " automaticly update DHCP client information in DNS" Also in the DNS Settings Tab of the Server NIC, you'll weant to use the, " Append primary and and connection specific DNS Suffixes " along with " Append parent Suffixes of the primary DNS Suffix " I may may totally mis-understood the actual issue. But it sounds like you said you can ping the IP but not the name, is that correct ? (Other wise this means nothing)

check to make sure the Primary DNS server ip in the TCP/IP properties of the 98 box points to the proper DNS server.