Re: Windows98 computer won't connect locally but can surf

On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 08:44:02 -0500, Larry Alkoff <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>I purchased a used Thinkpad 600E which uses Windows 98 (not SE)
>but I cannot connect to other computers on my local network although
>I can surf and ping.
>
>The Thinkpad doesn't have a built-in network jack so I inserted a 3com
>pcmcia
>connector I have sucessfully used before, configured it in the normal
>fixed IP fashion to my internal network (192.168.0.??) and rebooted.
>Settings says it's working correctly and I've setup network
>connections many times before. Everything on my internal network is
>behind a hardware router.
>
>I can ping an outside IP, both one I know by dotted IP address and one
>by using DNS. I can also surf, connected to a url (good old Google)
>using MSIE. This tells me the network is basically ok.
>
>But I _cannot_ ping any of the computers on my internal network or
>find them using Find Computer or do a dir with
>dir \\name\c. And I cannot ping the other way back from any of my
>computers. I'm using Zonealarm but have always been able to ping my
>internal computers before.
>
>I looked at what was happening to ping using Linux tcpdump and it
>seems that when I ping a local computer I am going out to the dns
>server instead of using the IP address I give either by typing in the
>IP or using a name that is in my rudimintary \windows\hosts and
>lmhosts.
>
>I am pretty familiar with Windows and Linux networking but am stumped
>here. Do these symtoms sound at all familiar? Maybe some Windows 98
>(not SE) thing? What could I test next?
>
>Thanks,
>Larry Alkoff

Well, it sure sounds like a misconfigured firewall from here.
Turn off or remove ZA and if you still have problems come back...