No response from Ping

[Guest]

While troubleshooting a home network sharing problem, I found that the main
workstation won't respond to a ping, even when I use it's own IP address. I
have been going over the configuration settings and firewall settings. I
haven't been able to find what is blocking the response.
I can ping other machines from this workstation, including the Internet. The
other workstations are also able to ping each other and have full Internet
access. Just no file sharing with the main wired workstation. This system is
running XP Home and is setup as a workgroup with file/print sharing active.
Can anyone suggest where to look?

 

[Rafael T]

John,

Let'see if i understood correctly.
- You cannot ping to a computer but this computer can ping to others
- Can you ping 127.0.0.1 from that computer?
- I guess you already tried to ping itself using the ip address and name
- Any firewall software installed on the computer? apart from the windows
firewall, maybe norton or mcafee?
- can you create shares in this computer and access from the others?

RT

 

[Guest]

I haven't tried to ping 127.0.0.1 but I did ping the 192.168. I did run
pingpath and it got a response from 127.0.0.1
I also disabled the Norton firewall with no change.
I have created shares and attempted to access them from another system. That
was the objective, to share the files from a workstation to a tablet PC.

 

[Chuck]

While troubleshooting a home network sharing problem, I found that the main
workstation won't respond to a ping, even when I use it's own IP address. I
have been going over the configuration settings and firewall settings. I
haven't been able to find what is blocking the response.
I can ping other machines from this workstation, including the Internet. The
other workstations are also able to ping each other and have full Internet
access. Just no file sharing with the main wired workstation. This system is
running XP Home and is setup as a workgroup with file/print sharing active.
Can anyone suggest where to look?

John,

First, look for misconfigured / overlooked firewalls. Third party products like
Norton are known to cause problems when disabled, or when incorrectly un
installed.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/your-personal-firewall-can-either-help.html>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/your-personal-firewall-can-either-help.html

Next, look for LSP / Winsock / TCP/IP corruption.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/problems-with-lsp-winsock-layer-in.html>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/problems-with-lsp-winsock-layer-in.html

If no help yet, provide "browstat status" and "ipconfig /all" from the problem
computer, and from 2 other computers. Read this article, and linked articles,
and follow instructions precisely:
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/troubleshooting-network-neighborhood.html#AskingForHelp>