If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)

Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

PCs on LAN can't ping each other

zx80 · 2005-09-10 20:52:20

Hi, A friend has 2 pcs on a LAN with a Netopia Wireless router. Both PCs can reach the internet with no problems and can ping sites and IP addresses on the internet. What they can't do is ping each other. Consequently, they cannot see each other on My Network Places, so file sharing can't happen (although file sharing is…

Options

10-09-2005 9:52pm

#1

zx80

Registered Users Posts: 126 ✭✭

Join Date: September 2005

Posts: 115

Hi,

A friend has 2 pcs on a LAN with a Netopia Wireless router. Both PCs can reach the internet with no problems and can ping sites and IP addresses on the internet. What they can't do is ping each other. Consequently, they cannot see each other on My Network Places, so file sharing can't happen (although file sharing is enabled on both pcs).

Both boxes are running XP; one on SP1 and the other on SP2.

Can anyone offer any suggestions why communication between the PCs at the ping level is failing, as he needs to get file sharing up and running? Anything I should know about wrt the Netopia router that may be causing the problem?

Thankz ...zx

0

Comments

Options
#2 10-09-2005 9:58pm
KdjaCL

Closed Accounts Posts: 20,346 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: February 2002

Posts: 18144

Step by Step

kdjac

0
Options
#3 10-09-2005 10:03pm
deckie27

Registered Users Posts: 1,901 ✭✭✭

Join Date: June 2002

Posts: 1718

Is there personal firewalls on 1 or both the PC's

0
Options
#4 11-09-2005 9:11pm
zx80

Registered Users Posts: 126 ✭✭

Join Date: September 2005

Posts: 115

Only XP firewall and this has been disabled on both pcs.

0