I have a laptop on our network/domain that I can ping from and see the other systems on the network/domain but when ping'd from the other systems refuses to answer. If I ping the laptop with the ip address it times out. If I ping -a it responds with the correct network/domain name but also times out. And a ping using the name alone times out as well. Now if I go to the laptop in question and use Network neighborhood, I can see and browse to other systems on the network. I have checked that our SERVER is the browsemaster and it does have the laptop's name listed. I have used the net commands to check the network and the nbtstat commands and the browstat to look at and compare the laptop to others on the network and all seems OK. BTW this laptop is an XP system and I have been able to ping to it previously. The laptop is able to log onto the server, and get out to the internet and other systems on our network. If I use Windows explorer and My Network Places and our Domain it sees the icon for the laptop but if I click on it it takes @30-60 seconds and gives me the message that the laptop name "is not accessable , The network path was not found" This doesn't surprise me as the ping wont work either. Any suggestion for isolating this would be appreciated greatly. Regards, Kim

turn off or properly configure the firewall on XP Give a person a fish, they eat for a day. Suggest they internet search and they learn a skill for a lifetime.

wanderer, Thanks for the reply. This morning I verified that at least the built in, XP firewall was disabled, via the radio button, vs enabled. It was disabled already so I did not have to change it. I agree that this laptop is blocking these requests but I'm not sure at this point how to allow it again. I need to verify the IPSec policy on the laptop too. Kim

Have you resolved this issue ? I am having a very similar problem, and was curious as to whether you have found a work-around, or permanent fix.