XP can ping out but will not respond to pings

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Tim Hollingworth

WinXP can ping everythign but nothing can ping it including VMware
Workstation 6 based VMs running on the local machine over any VMnet.

Firewall is turned off.
Symantec 10x installed but disabled.

<GRRR!>

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Can the XP ping itself? Or if starting the XP with clean booting, can you
ping it?

How to run Windows OS with a clean ...With MSCONFIG, you also can configure
a clean boot to disable common startup ... To perform a clean boot, please
follow these steps: 1) Run MSCONFIG.EXE. ...
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WinXP can ping everythign but nothing can ping it including VMware
Workstation 6 based VMs running on the local machine over any VMnet.

Firewall is turned off.
Symantec 10x installed but disabled.

<GRRR!>

(e-mail address removed)
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Start WinXP in "Safe mode with networking". If you can ping it in
that mode, the problem is caused by a program that only runs in normal
mode -- probably a firewall or an antivirus program that has a
firewall component.

The only way to tell for sure is to un-install the program. Just
disabling such a program isn't enough.
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