Re: request timed out message when trying to ping the local PC

On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 22:51:01 -0700, "michaelseagull"
<michaelseagull@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>Hi, Chuck,
>
>It was around 5 a.m. here in Australia when I received your last reply, I
>tried for about another half an hour and had to go sleep.
>Today I checked Orlandina once again and discovered that regardless turning
>off the Windows firewall and Norton Antivirus, Norton Internet Security was
>still running in the background with another firewall "on". SO EMBARRASSING!!!
>Of course, when I turned it off the client laptop was able to ping itself.
>All I had to do was, to run Home Network Wizard setup again and it's all
>working now.
>
>Thank you so much for your help. My stupid mistake led to learning so many
>new things, so that is the good part of it.

Michael,

Glad to help. Learning is what these forums are for. Thanks for letting us
know.

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