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Why can't I ping my Win2K m/c?
Name: hw Date: February 15, 2003 at 06:11:21 Pacific OS: Win2K SP3 CPU/Ram: P3 1133MHz 512K RAM
Comment:
I can't ping my Win 2K laptop from any other machine on my home network (pinging by IP address or by name). The other computers are a Pocket PC or desktops running Win 95 and Win 98 - I can ping them from my Win 2000 machine but not the other way around.
I don't have any personal firewall software on my Win2K machine and IPSEC is not in effect, nor is TCP/IP filtering
Name: moose Date: February 15, 2003 at 07:37:54 Pacific
Reply:
Try creating user/computer accounts on the Win2K PC for the others to access. I believe the problem rests with FAT16/FAT32 PC's not being seen on the network where Win2K is possibly running NTFS.
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Response Number 2
Name: hw Date: February 15, 2003 at 08:26:43 Pacific
Reply:
Thanks Moose - I do have the Guest account set up (and it still doesn't work) but I have a hard job believing that is the problem - this is just a PING that is not getting responded to - I don't care about being able to see it in Network Neighborhood - I just want to PING it :-(
Cheers
hw
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Response Number 3
Name: moose Date: February 16, 2003 at 07:43:34 Pacific
Reply:
Ok, so the first advice wasn't my best offering (I don't like being sloppy).
Better suggestions might be to check for the existence of and/or proper configuration of tcp/ip. You can try an uninstall/reinstall the protocol as well. Also try a loopback ping. Lastly, are all PC's in the same workgroup?
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