conundrum

this is part of the post about the printer,heres the story thus far,.the pc iam trying to install the printer on is 98,it can access the server and all domains from its explorer window thats fine ,but it couldnt ping the server,??????? i only work at this company on work experiance 1day per week so iam not geting the chance to realy get to grips with nt server,, 🙁