[Samba] Can't ping samba box after a while

[Jerome Haltom]

Sounds like it has nothing to do with Samba at all. Sounds like a DNS
issue. Examine how your DNS is configured.

On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 11:14 -0500, Chris wrote:
> We've got Samba running on a CentOS box. The rest of the network is 
> Windows, controlled by a Small Business Server (Windows 2003). The Samba 
> box gets an IP using DHCP. The Windows 2003 server is the DHCP server.
> 
> When I reboot the samba box, I can ping it by name for a while. "ping 
> myservername" works fine. After a few hours, though, I get "Ping request 
> could not find host" errors. I can still ping the server using the IP 
> address.
> 
> What could cause this? Is it a problem with my samba configuration, or 
> with the Windows server?
>