can't ping WinXP box from Linux

Hello,

I am having a lot of difficulty/frustration on this problem and I was
wondering if you all had some thoughts or advice.

I have two computers that I'm trying to get networking with Samba. One
is WinXP Pro, the other is Fedora Linux. The computers are connected
to a hub and the hub is connected to the internet via a LAN. Both
computers can access the internet. I installed Samba on the Fedora
computer, and I'm able to successfully connect from the WinXP computer
to the Linux computer, reading, writing, browsing, etc.

However, I can't connect from the Linux box to the WinXP box. It can
"see" the computer in the "network folders" under the smb:// ...
workgroup, but if I try to doubleclick the computer, it tells me "could
not connect to host...." After fiddling around for a while, I realized
that the problem was not Samba, but something deeper - I can ping the
linux box from the windows box, but I can't ping the windows box from
the linux box (pinging by ip). Also, both boxes can ping a third
computer in the LAN.

I thought it might be the XP firewall, so I completely disabled it, but
that didn't change anything - the linux box still can't ping the XP
box. I don't have any other firewalls running, and I disabled the
Norton antivirus just in case. I can see the hub activity light blink
when linux tries to ping the windows ip, so I know that the problem is
not the linux box.

Anything else I could try? Some sort of "allowed connection ips" or
anything? For some reason, my IP box is not responding to pings.

Thanks in advance!

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am having a lot of difficulty/frustration on this problem and I was
> wondering if you all had some thoughts or advice.
>
> I have two computers that I'm trying to get networking with Samba. One
> is WinXP Pro, the other is Fedora Linux. The computers are connected
> to a hub and the hub is connected to the internet via a LAN. Both
> computers can access the internet. I installed Samba on the Fedora
> computer, and I'm able to successfully connect from the WinXP computer
> to the Linux computer, reading, writing, browsing, etc.
>
> However, I can't connect from the Linux box to the WinXP box. It can
> "see" the computer in the "network folders" under the smb:// ...
> workgroup, but if I try to doubleclick the computer, it tells me "could
> not connect to host...." After fiddling around for a while, I realized
> that the problem was not Samba, but something deeper - I can ping the
> linux box from the windows box, but I can't ping the windows box from
> the linux box (pinging by ip). Also, both boxes can ping a third
> computer in the LAN.
>
> I thought it might be the XP firewall, so I completely disabled it, but
> that didn't change anything - the linux box still can't ping the XP
> box. I don't have any other firewalls running, and I disabled the
> Norton antivirus just in case. I can see the hub activity light blink
> when linux tries to ping the windows ip, so I know that the problem is
> not the linux box.
>
> Anything else I could try? Some sort of "allowed connection ips" or
> anything? For some reason, my IP box is not responding to pings.
>
> Thanks in advance!

If your Linux box can see the XP box in its "network neighbourhood",
then IP messages can travel between them OK. Some systems don't respond
to ping's.

You probably have an authentication problem connecting to it
(username/password).

Robert

Thanks, good point Robert... do you have any ideas on how I can get my
XP system to start responding to pings? Thanks,