I have a local network and two compluters can not talk to each other.

Both computers are XP professional SP2 and one is a laptop and one is a desktop. Laptop has dynamic IP and desktop has a static IP

I can ping the desktop from the laptop, but I can't ping laptop from the desktop (by IP or by name). Firewall is turned off on both computers.
I have tried making both systems static IP and got same results.

What can I check or do to fix this problem?


Thanks


Peter

On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 09:36:24 -0600, Peter wrote:

>I have a local network and two compluters can not talk to each other.
>
>Both computers are XP professional SP2 and one is a laptop and one is a desktop. Laptop has dynamic IP and desktop has a static IP
>
>I can ping the desktop from the laptop, but I can't ping laptop from the desktop (by IP or by name). Firewall is turned off on both computers.
>I have tried making both systems static IP and got same results.

Peter,

check http://winhlp.com/ and go to the Network Problem Solver.

Hans-Georg

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Thank you

It was Cisco firewall.

"Hans-Georg Michna" <hans-georgNoEmailPlease@michna.com> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 09:36:24 -0600, Peter wrote:
>
>>I have a local network and two compluters can not talk to each other.
>>
>>Both computers are XP professional SP2 and one is a laptop and one is a
>>desktop. Laptop has dynamic IP and desktop has a static IP
>>
>>I can ping the desktop from the laptop, but I can't ping laptop from the
>>desktop (by IP or by name). Firewall is turned off on both computers.
>>I have tried making both systems static IP and got same results.
>
> Peter,
>
> check http://winhlp.com/ and go to the Network Problem Solver.
>
> Hans-Georg
>
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> No mail, please.

On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 19:07:30 -0600, Peter wrote:

>Thank you
>
>It was Cisco firewall.

Peter,

thank you too for reporting back. It's always good to know what
it was.

Hans-Georg

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