I cannot ping the P/Windows XP from the Mac side by using computer name. Only IP pinging works. I have installed Parallels/Windows XP on Snow Leopard Mac OS X server. I enabled WINS server on the Mac Server and also set the static IP on the P/Windows XP and set the WINS to point back to the Mac Server. All IP address pinging works perfect between Mac < -- > Windows and even Windows <-->Windows. Also all Pinging between P/Windows <--> Windows using computer names works. However I cannot Ping Mac --> P/Windows using computer names. just using IP. From Mac terminal: admin$ ping winxp1.local <-- Ping: cannot resolve winxp1.local: Unknown host admin$ ping 192.168.1.42 <-- Show the packet speed info. From another Windows computer c:> ping winxp1.local <- works as expect Here is the winxp1.local ipconfig C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>ipconfig /all Windows IP Configuration Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : winxp1 Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . : local Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : local Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 2: Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Parallels Ethernet Adapter #2 Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-1C-42-ED-8D-93 Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.42 Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1 DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.41 Primary WINS Server . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.41 C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator> I have SMB and DNS services running on the Mac OS X Server. Any help please? Thanks