Re: A Can Ping B, But B Cannot Ping A?

"(PeteCresswell)" <x@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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Home network, both machines running XP Pro SP2.

Network problems. The workgroup is named "303"

Machine A can get to Machine B's shares - no problem

Machine B can see the work group (Network Places|Entire
Network|Microsoft Windows Network|303, but it tries to open 303, it
throws "303 is not accessible. You might not have permission to use
this network resource. Contact the admin........ The list of servers
for this workgroup is not available."

Machine A can ping machine B, but B cannot ping A.

Where should I start looking? A little voice says "Firewall", but
that doesn't seem consistent with A's being able to get to B.


The little voice is possibly correct.
Do you have file and printer sharing enabled as a firewall exception on B
but not on A? The firewall lets everything out, but only certain things
in, so this would allow A to access B, but not the other way around.
Allowing ping in appears to be tied to file sharing - if I turn this
exception off and on, it also blocks or allows ping.
.

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