My roomate runs windows xp pro and I run win2k. We used to play games over our lan with no problem (ghost recon, half-life, cs, you name it). When he brought it home for break, it worked fine. But when he brought it back here to the network, it no longer even saw the game servers.
I turned OFF the ICF firewall that XP uses, and that didn't solve the problem. I changed the internet settings to all the possible security levels and nothing worked. He connects to the internet just fine.
Another strange thing is that Norton Antivirus can't connect to the internet to perform Live Updates either. I even tried enabling the firewall and just permitting the tcp and udp ports for that particular game through the firewall. That doesn't work either.
I then disabled TCP/IP and uninstalled IPX, then reinstalled them both. Nothing.
We have a router going out to a cable modem. Inside of which are two hubs supporting about 20 computers. Just in my room though, the line comes into a switch. So inside of this switch there are 3 computers including my win2k machine and the xp machine I am talking about. The uplink goes to one of the hubs, then to the router, then to the cable modem.
The problem only exists with his xp machine. Several others on the network can interact with no problem. Like I said, there were no problems before he went home for break. I still see him on the network, and he sees me. We share files all the time.
I have NAV CE 7.6 on all the computers, and the problem has lasted for 3 months now, so the issue is not at all likely to be a virus.
It's really strange.
From my win2k machine I can ping everyone else but that one (crappy) xp. From the crappy machine, 100% loss. No pings are possible inside or outside the network.
I turned OFF the ICF firewall that XP uses, and that didn't solve the problem. I changed the internet settings to all the possible security levels and nothing worked. He connects to the internet just fine.
Another strange thing is that Norton Antivirus can't connect to the internet to perform Live Updates either. I even tried enabling the firewall and just permitting the tcp and udp ports for that particular game through the firewall. That doesn't work either.
I then disabled TCP/IP and uninstalled IPX, then reinstalled them both. Nothing.
We have a router going out to a cable modem. Inside of which are two hubs supporting about 20 computers. Just in my room though, the line comes into a switch. So inside of this switch there are 3 computers including my win2k machine and the xp machine I am talking about. The uplink goes to one of the hubs, then to the router, then to the cable modem.
The problem only exists with his xp machine. Several others on the network can interact with no problem. Like I said, there were no problems before he went home for break. I still see him on the network, and he sees me. We share files all the time.
I have NAV CE 7.6 on all the computers, and the problem has lasted for 3 months now, so the issue is not at all likely to be a virus.
It's really strange.
From my win2k machine I can ping everyone else but that one (crappy) xp. From the crappy machine, 100% loss. No pings are possible inside or outside the network.
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