I have a home wifi with 3 computers and a printer. Everything works and I
can ping everything from everything except I cannot ping my XP notebook from
itself. Why?

In article <#CJ$(E-Mail Removed)>, "Jim Slager"
<jslager@inameU_NO_WHATcom> wrote:
>I have a home wifi with 3 computers and a printer. Everything works and I
>can ping everything from everything except I cannot ping my XP notebook from
>itself. Why?

The problem is probably a misconfigured or incorrectly un-installed
firewall program.
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Steve Winograd [MVP] wrote:
> The problem is probably a misconfigured or incorrectly un-installed
> firewall program.

Well, Steve, it turns out that it does work if I disable Norton Internet
Security. It is really hard to understand since with NIS enabled I can see
my files through MS Windows Network and by using \\computername in a browser
window. I have my Trusted Zone clearly including the IP that my XP is
currently using. The XP Firewall has never been enabled. DO you think it
might payoff to re-install NIS?

In article <(E-Mail Removed)>, "Jim Slager"
<jslager@inameU_NO_WHATcom> wrote:
>Steve Winograd [MVP] wrote:
>> The problem is probably a misconfigured or incorrectly un-installed
>> firewall program.
>
>Well, Steve, it turns out that it does work if I disable Norton Internet
>Security. It is really hard to understand since with NIS enabled I can see
>my files through MS Windows Network and by using \\computername in a browser
>window. I have my Trusted Zone clearly including the IP that my XP is
>currently using. The XP Firewall has never been enabled. DO you think it
>might payoff to re-install NIS?

I think it would pay off to replace NIS with a different firewall,
Jim. I've seen several cases where it looks like NIS is configured
properly but it blocks LAN access.
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Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)

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In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
(E-Mail Removed) says...
> I think it would pay off to replace NIS with a different firewall,
> Jim. I've seen several cases where it looks like NIS is configured
> properly but it blocks LAN access.


Recommendations??

G. Allen Casteran wrote:
> In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
> (E-Mail Removed) says...
>> I think it would pay off to replace NIS with a different firewall,
>> Jim. I've seen several cases where it looks like NIS is configured
>> properly but it blocks LAN access.
>
>
> Recommendations??

I switched to Zone Alarm and now I can ping myself.