Pinging Windows pc from Debian

[tycoon]

Hi All....I'm very fresh in this whole open source thing....I hope u all won't get mad on the question I wanna ask...well yesterday I manage to install Debian woody on my pc,which I intend to use it as a server in home network.Hopefully It can serve my 3 windows based pc....But the problem or confusion which confront is do I need to install samba before I can start pinging my windows based pc....

 

[Nodsu]

No, you do not need Samba or any other package for ping.

If you cannot ping your Windows computer then the problem is most likely a firewall on the Windows PC.