[Samba] SAMBA Configuration

[Kenneth Illingsworth]

I just built a server using the United Linux beta3 and activated SAMBA v2.2.6 . I left smb.conf mostly default, but did change the Netbios name and WINS server (since we have one running). However, I cannot ping the netbios name nor the ip address of the server from another workstation. Similarly, the server can ping itself. But, it cannot ping the workstation. They are on the same subnet. 

I thought that it was an interface issue since 'testparm | grep interface'  on the new server listed the loopback address. After changing the interface to 172.17.60.7/24 (server ip using CIDR rules), the same anomaly occurred. 

If I let the system lease an ip address from our DHCP server, all pings work. Perhaps this is not a SAMBA configuration issue, but I thought I would try here first since SAMBA is what I am after. 

Regards,
Ken Illingsworth