can't ping myself

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Jim Slager

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?
 
"Jim Slager" said:
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?
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The problem is probably a misconfigured or incorrectly un-installed
firewall program.
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Steve said:
The problem is probably a misconfigured or incorrectly un-installed
firewall program.
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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?
 
"Jim Slager" said:
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?
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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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Best Wishes,
Steve Winograd, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)

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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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