peer to peer connectivity

I am having a peer to peer connectivity problem. We have
5 computers in the office 4 of witch are running peer to
peer through a DSL router and a 5 port Nway switch. The
OSs are XP Pro, Win ME, and Win 98.

The issue is between the XP Pro and Win ME computers.
All other connections are fine. I attempted a ping
between the two from both computers and was
unsuccessful. After this I ran a ping from each computer
using their own IP address and was successful.

Any Help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks,


Troy

www.careyholzman.com/netfixes.htm

Carey

"Troy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:02fc01c3c357$2f119b80$(E-Mail Removed)...
> I am having a peer to peer connectivity problem. We have
> 5 computers in the office 4 of witch are running peer to
> peer through a DSL router and a 5 port Nway switch. The
> OSs are XP Pro, Win ME, and Win 98.
>
> The issue is between the XP Pro and Win ME computers.
> All other connections are fine. I attempted a ping
> between the two from both computers and was
> unsuccessful. After this I ran a ping from each computer
> using their own IP address and was successful.
>
> Any Help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks,
>
>
> Troy
>

In article <02fc01c3c357$2f119b80$(E-Mail Removed)>, "Troy"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>I am having a peer to peer connectivity problem. We have
>5 computers in the office 4 of witch are running peer to
>peer through a DSL router and a 5 port Nway switch. The
>OSs are XP Pro, Win ME, and Win 98.
>
>The issue is between the XP Pro and Win ME computers.
>All other connections are fine. I attempted a ping
>between the two from both computers and was
>unsuccessful. After this I ran a ping from each computer
>using their own IP address and was successful.
>
>Any Help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks,
>
>
>Troy

Make sure that all of the computers have IP addresses in the same
subnet.

The most likely reason that you can't ping a computer is that firewall
on that computer is blocking access. In particular, you must
permanently disable XP's built-in Internet Connection Firewall on the
local area network connection -- it's for use only on a direct modem
connection to the Internet. Disable and un-install all other
firewalls while troubleshooting. Details here:

Windows XP Internet Connection Firewall
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/...c_firewall.htm
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