Yes, WINS is enabled.

fileserver is the host name of the workstation... and the netbios name.

Though, I'm the workstations never had a wins server specified in the network properties. I'll try it though... This problem just started today... possibly last night. (I rebooted both the fileserver and the DNS machine last night. the backup battery had to be replaced... so I powered it all off and replaced battery and powered back on)

Oh, it only sent 3 pings because I ended it early with ctrl-c... I just cut that out of the quote.

I'll read up more tonight on how to troubleshoot WINS problems....

The fileserver does have WINS pointed to the DNS server (which also has WINS running) and that status is "responding" on the lookup server.