i have a workers computer, that if i go through network places i can access the server. if i ping the server via IP address, it pings just fine. however if i ping it by the host name, it pings somewhere else. here is a direct link to the pinging.http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn78/Peeps38/nkellysping.jpgi have uninstalled and reinstalled the application that resides on the server in question, and i can also access any of the files that are shared out from the server. the inability to ping the server is what is stopping the application from running properly. i have checked and rechecked any potential firewalls that may be running (norton and windows are the only two i found and both have been disabled)my first thought was to force the recognition of the ip in the host file. the host file looks like this:# Copyright (c) 1993-1999 Microsoft Corp.## This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.## This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one# space.## Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.## For example:## 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host127.0.0.1 localhost10.1.10.11 Televantage10.1.10.10 eserver the 10.1.10.11 is the problem server and it is not resolving when pinging the name.i am at a total loss as there are two other computers not 6 feet from the problem pc and they work perfectly fine. any thoughts or ideas would be greatly appreciated thanks Jerry 1 person got this answerI do too

thanks for the input. before i had a chance to do this a gentleman i worked with in the past had a thought that could work. what we did was created a forward lookup zone and assigned a IP address to that zone and then uninstalled the program and reinstalled it via the IP address instead of the server name. again, thanks for the suggestion, it is appreciated