2 machines cannot ping each other

  • Thread starter Thread starter Tester
  • Start date Start date
T

Tester

Hi there,
I have 2 machines on the LAN one W2K Pro with no firewall and one XP
Pro0 with the firewall off, they have DHCP IPs, same mask and gateway
but cannot ping each other by either IP or name but they can ping
gateway. If I bring a third machine they can ping it but pinging the 2
machines above or VNC into them, they do not respond.
I have a feeling windows is corrupt.
Thanks a lot, T
 
Tester said:
Hi there,
I have 2 machines on the LAN one W2K Pro with no firewall and one XP
Pro0 with the firewall off, they have DHCP IPs, same mask and gateway
but cannot ping each other by either IP or name but they can ping
gateway. If I bring a third machine they can ping it but pinging the 2
machines above or VNC into them, they do not respond.
I have a feeling windows is corrupt.
Thanks a lot, T
Click to expand...

While it is possible that Windows is corrupt, it is far more likely
that you have a residue of a firewall still active. ZoneAlarm, for
example, is notoriously difficult to disable or uninstall. If this
was my PC then I would launch msconfig.exe and disable ALL
startup programs and ALL non-Microsoft drivers, then test
things again.

You must disconnect the machines from the Internet for this
test. You can get msconfig.exe from here:
http://www.svrops.com/svrops/dwnldoth.htm
 
Back
Top