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At 10:59 AM 6/26/2005 -0700, you wrote:
>On 25 Jun 2005 at 23:01, Paul Jones wrote:
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<SNIP>
>> I can ping 192.168.0.151 from the Compaq, but can't ping 192.168.0.1 from
>> the Asus. On the Compaq, I can see the workgroup [Mshome] under My Network
>> Places\Entire Network\Microsoft Windows Network. I did see the 98 machine
>> icon at one time, but could not see or read the shared documents folder.
>> On the 98 machine, I could only see the workgroup once or twice in several
>> tries.
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<David Gillett>
> Many XP machines won't respond to ping if the XP firewall is enabled. In
>90% or more of cases I've seen or heard of, "A can ping B, but B can't ping
>A" has turned out to be due to a firewall filtering out ping requests or
>ping responses.
>
Thank you David! It was Zone Alarm's setting for NIC in the XP machine.
Changed it to "Trusted" and all seems to be fine. I actually found out
late last night via the message board at Annoyances.org:
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/t1008096447
Some good advice there, some bad.
Thanks for the info on NetBEUI and Simple File Sharing, too.
Paul Jones
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