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windows 7 ping cannot find host but ip address works
this worked for me previously but i started from scratch and now it doesn't.
I have a single pc running windows 7 with a lan cable from it to a synology diskstation NAS.
my win7 pc is 192.168.0.10 and my nas box server name is 'data' with ip 192.168.0.20.
the other day within windows i was able to do \\data in an address bar and saw my file shares. I redid the NAS box today to make sure i understand how everything works, now doing \\data does not work from the win7 pc.
in a command prompt i type 'ping data' and it says could not find host.
but if i do ping 192.168.0.20 it pings successfully, and if i do \\192.168.0.20 in an address bar it shows my file shares and everything works fine
on the windows 7 pc, what causes this and how do i fix?
thanks.