RE: XP and SP2

From: Lewej (Lewej_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/08/04


Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 08:38:01 -0800

Hi

What you need to do is to go into the firewall setting and enable TCP445
under File and Print sharing under exceptions. Enableing TCP 139 allows
connection but will not allow ping.

I would not change ICMP settings.

Regards

Lewej

"ntwrk admn" wrote:

> After installing SP2 on workstations running XP or new computers running XP
> that come with SP2 already installed, here’s the problem. I can ping the
> server from the workstation but I can’t ping the workstation from the server.
> Any ideas? I had a similar problem where I couldn’t install Norton Anti-virus
> from the server to the workstation, it wouldn’t connect to the workstation
> and gave me the following error, “cannot access admin$, contact system
> administrator”. Turned out I turned off the firewall settings in the local
> area connection settings on the workstation and it worked. I turned off the
> same settings in this case thinking it may help and still can’t ping the
> workstation.



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