Here's a stumper. Small charter high school - about 40 computers. The teachers just got new laptops. XP SP2. I set up all laptops with 2 network printers installed. Had complaints from a couple of teachers that they could not print to one of the printers. I'm running static IP's on all computers and printers. I can ping and print to the printer from everywhere but those laptops. On the first one, I turned off the windows firewall, and viola, problem fixed. Second laptop, I do the same thing, problem NOT fixed - still cannot ping printer. I can ping other printer just fine, can ping any other machine on the network. I have flushed the DNS, I have looked at the hosts file, I have added an entry to the hosts file, I have completely reset all network connection settings with new static Ip's and still no ping on that printer. It's like something is blocking that one IP address. Any ideas? thanks!

Maybe some info in these articles> How to Troubleshoot Network Printing Problems in Windows XP Cannot Use Network Printer If Your Password Is Not Saved (user gets--Access Denied, Unable to Connect) http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;312055