Samba won't dance (more info)

[Tim]

On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 11:20 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> One thing to keep in mind is that the machine may be configured to 
> not respond to pings. It is not as good of a test as it used to be. 

Pinging has only ever been a test of whether you can get a ping back.  

Some seem to think that you can use ping to see if a webserver is there,
or a mailserver, or something else.  You can't.  All you do is test
whether something pings back at that address, you don't test server
software with it.

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