i am running centOS 5.5 with samba 3.3.8 I have enabled wins to see if i can get my windows workstation to be able to browse for the samba server and also be able to ping by hostname. I don't know if i have missed something in the config but I was going to upgrade to see if its an issue with 3.3.8.

if an upgrade is the solution can someone give me a how to on the upgrade. I used yum install samba3 to install it and found a how to to install 3.5 but the how to said i need to in all them ./configure command as the original install and it should install over 3.3.8. I don't know how to find that because i used yum.

Has Samba worked at all? Can you access any of your sambe shares. Post smb.conf file.
If you have a firewall on the server you need enable ports for samba and ping.

since i didn't have that much data on it i just reloaded it with Ubuntu 10 and it had samba 3.5. wins took right off.

i didn't have a firewall enabled on the server and i was able to get to the shars via ip but not browsing.

thanks for the help.