Cannot ping machine

[Beast-of-Burden]

Have an XP SP2 laptop with the firewall disabled. I can ping machines from the pc in question but the machine itself won't respond when pinged. I see no unusual programs or software that would be blocking it.

Any ideas?

 

[R. McCarty]

Where are the incoming pings being sent from ( LAN or WAN ) ?
If a LAN is there a Router in use. What other Security software is
being used and is it the same on all machines ?

Have an XP SP2 laptop with the firewall disabled. I can ping machines from
the pc in question but the machine itself won't respond when pinged. I see
no unusual programs or software that would be blocking it.

Any ideas?

 

[Beast-of-Burden]

LAN and yes a router is being used. Responses from other machines on the LAN are fine it's only this one machine. All machines have Symantec antivirus installed.

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Where are the incoming pings being sent from ( LAN or WAN ) ?
If a LAN is there a Router in use. What other Security software is
being used and is it the same on all machines ?

Have an XP SP2 laptop with the firewall disabled. I can ping machines from
the pc in question but the machine itself won't respond when pinged. I see
no unusual programs or software that would be blocking it.

Any ideas?

 

[R. McCarty]

Thanks for the follow-up info. Assume all the client PC's are using
DHCP for configuration and that all the computers are members of
the same Workgroup ( MSHome ) ? Do they all use Wired NIC's
or a combination of Wired/Wireless ? If any Wireless, using XP's
native Wireless applet or the NIC vendor support applet ?

Sorry for the endless questions, but something must be unique on the
non-responsive computer.

LAN and yes a router is being used. Responses from other machines on the LAN
are fine it's only this one machine. All machines have Symantec antivirus
installed.

--
Where are the incoming pings being sent from ( LAN or WAN ) ?
If a LAN is there a Router in use. What other Security software is
being used and is it the same on all machines ?

Have an XP SP2 laptop with the firewall disabled. I can ping machines from
the pc in question but the machine itself won't respond when pinged. I see
no unusual programs or software that would be blocking it.

Any ideas?

 

[R. McCarty]

Sometimes these kinds of issues are the hardest to resolve. Have
you tried to ping the PC itself ( 127.0.0.1 ). Obviously, it's not a
router setting as it would block other's on the Domain. I guess you
could boot to Safe Mode with Networking and see if it will accept
and respond to Ping traffic. That might indicate it's a 3rd-party app
that's responsible. Afraid I'm about out of suggestions.

 

[Paul Johnson]

Hey folks, maybe someone can help me. I have a similar problem with my
laptop running XP. The laptop can ping out, it can ping myself, but
when I use another computer to ping the laptop it just won't respond. I
know the laptop is receiving the ping because I can see the packet count
for the network card increase when I issue the ping from the other
computer.
I've removed all firewall software and turned off windows firewall.
I'm stumped. Any suggestions

Start a new thread and stop trying to hijack a different thread unless
you're certain your problem is exactly the same. Given you have different
symptoms, it's a different problem. Start fresh and ask a question the
smart way.

 

[Rock]

Hey folks, maybe someone can help me. I have a similar problem with my
laptop running XP. The laptop can ping out, it can ping myself, but
when I use another computer to ping the laptop it just won't respond. I
know the laptop is receiving the ping because I can see the packet count
for the network card increase when I issue the ping from the other
computer.
I've removed all firewall software and turned off windows firewall.
I'm stumped. Any suggestions

It's best to post a new question as a new thread rather than as a reply to
someone else's thread, and in this case one which is 9 days old.