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Basically, I have a small cable router running DHCP connecting my desktop and laptop. Both systems are running XP SP2 and the address of the router is 192.168.0.1. The SP2 firewall has been disabled.
Desktop - IP 192.168.0.2
Laptop - IP 192.168.0.3
*TCP/IP and NetBIOS protocols installed, Obtain IP address automatically on both systems*
Previously, file sharing from the laptop to desktop worked fine, but I couldn't access the shared laptop drive from the desktop. No problem, so I installed NetBIOS and now I can access the shared drives and printers on each machine easily.
However, I noticed that I cannot ping the latop from the desktop, neither by the laptop's name or IP address. I either get "request timed out" or "ping request could not find host". Pinging my desktop from the laptop works great either the hostname or IP. Both systems can ping 127.0.0.1 and the gateway (router - IP 192.168.0.1) with no problems.
It's not a big deal, but I'm trying the demo of Maxivista (a multi-monitor program across a LAN) and it can't see the systems over the network. Since file sharing works great, I've concluded it must be because the desktop can't ping the laptop.
Any ideas? I've done everything I know and a quick Google search didn't turn up anything I haven't already tried.
Update
It was a problem with the SP2 firewall on the laptop. I thought I had it turned off, but apparent it was still doing something in the background. I had to turn some services back on in order to access the firewall configuration. Once I made sure the firewall was disabled, I could ping the laptop just fine and the program demo works great.
Desktop - IP 192.168.0.2
Laptop - IP 192.168.0.3
*TCP/IP and NetBIOS protocols installed, Obtain IP address automatically on both systems*
Previously, file sharing from the laptop to desktop worked fine, but I couldn't access the shared laptop drive from the desktop. No problem, so I installed NetBIOS and now I can access the shared drives and printers on each machine easily.
However, I noticed that I cannot ping the latop from the desktop, neither by the laptop's name or IP address. I either get "request timed out" or "ping request could not find host". Pinging my desktop from the laptop works great either the hostname or IP. Both systems can ping 127.0.0.1 and the gateway (router - IP 192.168.0.1) with no problems.
It's not a big deal, but I'm trying the demo of Maxivista (a multi-monitor program across a LAN) and it can't see the systems over the network. Since file sharing works great, I've concluded it must be because the desktop can't ping the laptop.
Any ideas? I've done everything I know and a quick Google search didn't turn up anything I haven't already tried.
Update
It was a problem with the SP2 firewall on the laptop. I thought I had it turned off, but apparent it was still doing something in the background. I had to turn some services back on in order to access the firewall configuration. Once I made sure the firewall was disabled, I could ping the laptop just fine and the program demo works great.
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