XP Home and Win 2000

[Guest]

This is my proble

I have a 2 port router which connects to the cable mode
1 port of the router connected to XP home machin
the other port of the router to Win2000
Win2000 machine can ping XP home machin
but when I tried to ping from XP home machine I get 'Requesttime ou

XP home can ping the router and both machines can access interne
Its just I cant have my XP home to see my Win 2000

Please advise any helpfull ideas
Thank
Sudhi

 

[Rob Schneider]

Ideas:
1. firewall on Win 2000 set to not respond to pings?
2. run XP's Network Setup Wizard?
3. Some 3rd party firwall on XP stopping outgoing pings?
4. Netmask same on both machines?

Hope this is useful to you. Let us know.

rms