Question : Unable to ping Windows Svr 2003 from PC

Greeting Experts,
now i have a small problem here that i need assistance from you guys.
Ok, now this is the scenario.....
I have happily installed Windows Server 2003 and patched it with SP2, gave it a fixed IP and everything was up. I'm able to see my server in "My Network Place", able to access to the shared folder shared out from the server, vice versa.
But now the tricky part was i'm unable to ping the server from my PC (in LAN) by it's hostname, ie:svr1.
The server seems to be attached to an IP of our dynamic IP range (it was the dynamic IP the server is getting before assigned with a static IP).
and I'm able to ping the server by static IP address given.
Now, just which part did i missed??? i have tried ipconfig /flushdns, but no difference..
Please help...!!!

Cheers.

Answer : Unable to ping Windows Svr 2003 from PC

Here's the thing....

When you type

ping servername

It is going to try to resolve via dns and then ping the fqdn of the server.
If DNS resoution failed,  it is going to try WINS (if you have a wins server).
If not it will do a NETBIOS broadcast to resolve

If you have multiple subnets,  the netbios broadcast will only work in the subnet that the server is located in because clients in a different subnet won't be able to route their broadcasts to the subnet where the server is located.

From the other server and the client,  ping the name of the server you are having trouble with.

If it only respond back with servername and then the IP....then it is resolving via netbios.
If you see the servername.domain.name ex:  server1.mydomain.local,  then it is resolving via DNS.