I am running 2 XP Home based PCs on a home network. They are connected to a router and I am able to connect to the internet with them for web browsing. I can't however PING the laptop from itself or the other PC. When I try to run the network setup wizard I temporarily get an Internet Gateway appear in my network connections. I comes up as disabled and when I try to enable it, it tells me it was successful but then goes back and disables it. After a few minutes it then disapears from my network connections window and I don't have access to it until I run the wizard again. My set up has both of my PCs on my LAN, connected to my router. The router then connects me to my ISP (DSL). I'm lost as to what can solve my inability to share files or printers. I'm sure it's stemming from the fact that for some reason I can't PING my laptop. The router is setup for DHCP and it sees the laptop when I connect. ipconfig also gives me the IP address that my router shows. I would be forever indebted to whomever solves this problem. I've tried everything I can

Do you have a software firewall installed on the laptop...Norton Internet Security, McAfee Security, Zone Alarm or similar? If NO...you could try to remove TCP/IP from the network adapter and then add it again. You may have to reshare you folders. -DF

DarkFriend, Your a genius! Thanks, ...Erik