further update to my networking problem

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William Gower

I figured out it's because both machines are running Norton Personal
Firewall. If I turn the firewall off they can each ping each over. I went
into Configure for the firewall for each of them and told them that the
other was a trusted connection but it didn't help. I still can't ping each
other while the firewall is on.
 
Hi William,

I would recommend contacting Norton (if no response from here of course) to
see if they can explain what they mean when they indicate a 'trusted
connection'. It's possible that they don't allow ICMP (the protocol used
by ping) with that configuration. There may be another way to allow that.

Best regards,
Michael Platts, MCSE
Microsoft Product Support

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"William Gower" said:
I figured out it's because both machines are running Norton Personal
Firewall. If I turn the firewall off they can each ping each over. I went
into Configure for the firewall for each of them and told them that the
other was a trusted connection but it didn't help. I still can't ping each
other while the firewall is on.
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I had exactly the same problem at a customer's site yesterday,
William. I tried every option that I could find for defining the LAN
as a trusted zone, but nothing that I did could convince Norton to
allow pings from the local area network when the firewall was enabled.
The computer couldn't even ping itself.

I'll post a follow-up message if I find a solution.
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