Weird Networking problem

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I have two notebooks (P3 & P4) running XP Pro. I have attempted to network
them using a mini hub (not wireless). I thought it would be very simple.
They both have built-in Ethernet cards, so I set manual IP addresses for
both of them (in the same domain), the same workgroup name (since there is
no real server) and rebooted them.

Well, here is the weird thing.

I can ping notebook A from notebook B, but not the other way around, when I
try to ping B from A it simply times out! It's driving me crazy. All
firewalls, virus checkers, etc. have been disabled. The systems have been
restarted 100s of times. It is driving me crazy. The only clue is that on
the systems that I cannot ping, when I try to create a new connection on the
LAN Connector, I get the error " Spooler subsystem app has encountered a
problem and needs to close" But then, on the other hand, I can ping the
other computer, from this one, even after I get the error.

I have the latest deivers (Already checked). IPCONFIG on both systems
reports the correct info. I tried repairing the Connections - no change.

This is driving me crazy. Any ideas?

Thanks
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Zone Alarm installed? Try uninstalling it completely and retest. If
successful, reinstall it and check the settings carefully. Also, I assume
you tried disabling the built in firewall.

hth

philip ashley
 
Thanks, Philip. No Zone Alarm, installed, at all. Yes ICF is OFF on both
systems. I also found the instructions to disable the spooler and created a
new Network Connection without getting the error message, but still no
success. I can ping one way, but not the other way!!

I've read dozens of MS Knowledge Base articles, and tried what they
suggested, to end up where I started from - nowhere :-(


philip ashley said:
Zone Alarm installed? Try uninstalling it completely and retest. If
successful, reinstall it and check the settings carefully. Also, I assume
you tried disabling the built in firewall.

hth

philip ashley

UGModeler said:
I have two notebooks (P3 & P4) running XP Pro. I have attempted to network
them using a mini hub (not wireless). I thought it would be very simple.
They both have built-in Ethernet cards, so I set manual IP addresses for
both of them (in the same domain), the same workgroup name (since there is
no real server) and rebooted them.

Well, here is the weird thing.

I can ping notebook A from notebook B, but not the other way around,
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Well, Philip, as a follow-up, I finally got it working (so far, anyway
<smile>). The culprit was Norton Internet Protector (or whatever it was
called) which had come pre-installed on one of the systems. I had totally
disabled all its components, but apparently that was not enough. Once I
completely uninstalled the whole Norton Suite, I'm finally able to get the
P2P network working.

Now, if it stops working, I'll know that was only *part* of the problem.

As an aside, every time I have had networking problems in the past, on many
different systems (and different OSes) , it has turned out to be one of
Norton's products! And they are so popular! Go figure.

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philip ashley said:
Zone Alarm installed? Try uninstalling it completely and retest. If
successful, reinstall it and check the settings carefully. Also, I assume
you tried disabling the built in firewall.

hth

philip ashley

UGModeler said:
I have two notebooks (P3 & P4) running XP Pro. I have attempted to network
them using a mini hub (not wireless). I thought it would be very simple.
They both have built-in Ethernet cards, so I set manual IP addresses for
both of them (in the same domain), the same workgroup name (since there is
no real server) and rebooted them.

Well, here is the weird thing.

I can ping notebook A from notebook B, but not the other way around,
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pleased you found the culprit, i was guessing at ZA <g>, but these sorts of
products have components which remain loaded even if you apparently
'disable' them. Look in 'task manager' and 'services' and its usually
possible to see which ones are involved with a particular program and they
can be temporarily stopped there.

hth

philip ashley

UGModeler said:
Well, Philip, as a follow-up, I finally got it working (so far, anyway
<smile>). The culprit was Norton Internet Protector (or whatever it was
called) which had come pre-installed on one of the systems. I had totally
disabled all its components, but apparently that was not enough. Once I
completely uninstalled the whole Norton Suite, I'm finally able to get the
P2P network working.

Now, if it stops working, I'll know that was only *part* of the problem.

As an aside, every time I have had networking problems in the past, on many
different systems (and different OSes) , it has turned out to be one of
Norton's products! And they are so popular! Go figure.

--

philip ashley said:
Zone Alarm installed? Try uninstalling it completely and retest. If
successful, reinstall it and check the settings carefully. Also, I assume
you tried disabling the built in firewall.

hth

philip ashley
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