Cannot Ping WinXP from Win98

[John B]

I have two computers on a home network. 1 is Windows XP
Pro and the other is Windows 98 2nd edition. The
WindowsXP machine can ping the win98 machines ip adress
but I cannot see it in the network neighborhood. On the
98 machine I cannot ping nor see the winxp machine. I
have tried putting the ip address of each other in the
WINS and Gateway entries of the TCP/IP protocols advanced
setting on both computers but no luck. From the xp
machine I can use the 98 machines shared resources by
using NET USE commands. Anyone know the solution or where
to look?

 

[Guest]

At this point, you want to make sure they are not on a
different subnet.

 

[Robert L [MS-MVP]]

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One-way ping only

If you can ping other computers and other computers can't ping your
computer, this is often caused by an improperly configured firewall
on you computer. For example, ICF should not be enabled on LAN NIC.
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