I can see my wife's PC but she can't see mine

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I have several PCs in my home. I can see all of them from my laptop,
but they cannot see my laptop.

I can connect, ping, share the resources on the my wife's PC.

She cannot even ping my IP address. I even went so far as to use
Microsoft's home networking wizard on both PCs.

Both machines can see the internet.

I've tried DHCP and manually assigned IP addresses. The IP addresses
are both using the same subnet.

192.168.0.80
192.168.0.82

Both have subnet of 255.255.255.0.

I am really confused. Any suggestions will be welcomed.

Thanks,
Thom
 
I have several PCs in my home. I can see all of them from my laptop,
but they cannot see my laptop.

I can connect, ping, share the resources on the my wife's PC.

She cannot even ping my IP address. I even went so far as to use
Microsoft's home networking wizard on both PCs.

Both machines can see the internet.

I've tried DHCP and manually assigned IP addresses. The IP addresses
are both using the same subnet.

192.168.0.80
192.168.0.82

Both have subnet of 255.255.255.0.

I am really confused. Any suggestions will be welcomed.

Thanks,
Thom
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Thom,

There are 2 common causes for this problem. First, check for misconfigured or
overlooked firewalls.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/your-personal-firewall-can-either-help.html>
Next, check for the restrictanonymous setting.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/07/restrictanonymous-and-your-server.html>

If no help yet, help us to help you. Provide output from "browstat status" and
"ipconfig /all", and we can diagnose the problem. Please follow these
instructions precisely.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/troubleshooting-network-neighborhood.html#AskingForHelp>
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.
 
ChucK,

Thanks for the input but the problem is not related to the firewall or
restrictanonymous. Regardless of the setting for those values I
cannot ping from my wife's PC to my laptop. Ironically, I can remote
into my wife's PC from my laptop.

Still looking for a solution....

Thom
 
Chuck,

Actually, after turning off and back on the firewall on both my wife's
PC and my laptop, the problem was resolved.

THANKS A LOT.

Thom
 
Chuck,

Actually, after turning off and back on the firewall on both my wife's
PC and my laptop, the problem was resolved.

THANKS A LOT.

Thom
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Excellent, Thom. Thanks for letting us know.

Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.
 
helo:
I have a very similar problem. One of my machines running xp professional
will not respond to ping from any other machines

I have doen the foillwoing

1. turned off firewall
2. ininstall ipv6
3. delete and reinstall the hardware and network conection couple of times

my ipconfig /al output is here. I donot have browstat in my machine.
any clues?
thanx

Windows IP Configuration



Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : kovalam

Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :

Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown

IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No



Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 7:



Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :

Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Intel(R) PRO/1000 CT Network
Connection

Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-50-8D-F5-2A-89

Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes

Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.106

Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0

Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1

DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1

DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1

Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Saturday, October 01, 2005
5:16:20 PM

Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Saturday, October 08, 2005
5:16:20 PM
 
helo:
I have a very similar problem. One of my machines running xp professional
will not respond to ping from any other machines

I have doen the foillwoing

1. turned off firewall
2. ininstall ipv6
3. delete and reinstall the hardware and network conection couple of times
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That's a good start with the diagnostics. But please start a new thread, with a
unique and descriptive Subject. Help us to help you.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/how-to-post-on-usenet-and-encourage.html>
 
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