Greetings and Questions

[Thomas Sapp]

First off I would like to say hello.  I just joined the mailing list and am 
looking forward to enlightenment! (I'm a dork)  Anyways, I also have a 
question in regards to linux.  I have two machines setup on my works 
network, one is a redhat 7.1 box and the other is a SUSE 7.1 box.  Neither 
of these machines can ping hostnames on our network but they can ping 
hostnames such as yahoo.com or linux.com.  I can map to network drives if I 
use the IP address of the machine I am mapping too.  Our network is mainly 
windows nt 4.0 or windows 2000 servers/workstations and as I had stated I 
can access the shares on those machines if I use the IP address.  For the 
life of me, I can not figure out what my be wrong or what I need to fix in 
order to correct this problem.  I have specified the correct DNS servers, I 
have also specified a non-used IP address on our network.  My only guess 
right now is that since we are using token-ring instead of ethernet it might 
be messing things up but I am not sure.  Any help would be greatly 
appreciated.  Once again, I am excited to be a part of this mailing list and 
look forward to communicating with you all.

Thanks
Tom Sapp
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