cannot ping 2008 by server name

[erd]

hi,

 

i am trying windows server 2008 eval. installed only iis roles and no other roles, my nic is connected to the router static.

 

from my winxp i can ping by ipaddress the server 2008 but cannot ping by name..

 

is there something i am missing?

[F2 Staff]

Did you create a local zone for the machine name in DNS and assign an IP to it?

[Nuz]

Can you describe in more steps on how to do this?

I used the AD wizard to create the AD and it also created the DNS stuff. So I can browse the net on my server (windows 2008). I also enabled DHCP on this server.

So when I get a client Vista machine to get its ip info dynamacily(sp?) assigned to it. I cant seem to browse the web on the client.

 

The gateway ip that my client machine has is the server ip and the dns ip that my client has is also the server.

 

I know that this config used to work on my windows 2003 server but why not in the windows 2008 server?

 

Thanks