Cannot ping host computer by name

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arnold

I have a home network with a win 98 server, one win XP
home edition laptop and one win XP pro laptop.

I cannott get the XP pro laptop to see the server. I can
ping the server by IP address and that works OK but when
I ping by computer name it responds "could not find host".

Can anyone tell me what's going on?

The XP home edition works fine.
 
This should be a problem of resolving the NetBios-Name of
the Win98 machine. Don't have a running Win98 system here
to look for a solution but hopefully this hint will help
you.
 
This may be because you don't have an entry in the hosts table, or whatever Windows calls it.
 
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