Not Pinging My Own IP

[Guest]

I have a Dell Latitude D600 and I am having some weird issues. When I am on
the network I can ping and access everthing just fine the only thing is no
workstation or server can ping my IP Address and I need this because I share
a printer off of this laptop. Why can I Ping Everything, but nothing can
ping my IP Address.

I have Windows XP Service Pack 2. Can anyone help me with why I cannot ping
my IP Address from other stations on the network, but from my IP Address I
can ping them fine?

Thanks Joe

 

[Doug Sherman [MVP]]

In all the SP2 installs I have done the default configuration has been to
allow ping response, but I have heard that this is not always the case. So,
try this:

Start\Control Panel\Security Center\Windows Firewall. Click the Advanced
tab, click the ICMP Settings button. Check the first box - Allow incoming
echo request.

Doug Sherman
MCSE Win2k/NT4.0, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP

 

[Doug Sherman [MVP]]

Possible:

1. If you are running a third party firewall, uninstall it.

2. If you obtain an IP address automatically, try manually configuring it:

Click Start/Run cmd ENTER

ipconfig /all ENTER

Write down your IP address, subnet mask, Default Gateway, and DNS server IP
address.

exit ENTER

Click Start/Control Panel/Network and Internet Connections/Network
Connections. Right click the Local Area Connection for your network adapter
and select Properties. Highlight TCP/IP and click the Properties button.
Manually enter the values you wrote down. Click the Advanced button then
the WINS tab - make sure NetBIOS is enabled. Reboot all machines.

3. On the Firewall Exceptions tab, make sure File and Printer Sharing is
checked.

Doug Sherman
MCSE Win2k/NT4.0, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP

 

[Doug Sherman [MVP]]

First post: "Why can I Ping Everything, but nothing can ping my IP
Address."

Last Post: "It will ping itself but nothing else."

If this change occurred after changing your IP address, the subnet mask is
incorrect, or the new address is otherwise not on the same subnet.

Doug Sherman
MCSE Win2k/NT4.0, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP

 

[Guest]

Sorry for the confusion Doug.

I can ping everything on the network just fine, but when I try to ping
myself from anywhere on the network the Request Times Out. I can go to a
server that I am directly connected to and try to ping back to my PC and it
times out, but when I ping that server from my machine it replys just fine.

I went back to Windows XP SP1 thinking that this might fix this issue, but
it has not. I am not between any routers getting to anything on the network.
Everything is Switch and Hub driven. THe subnet Mask is right.

Anything else??

Joe