Hardware & Devices

Chris C-B4-Oct-11 0:49

Chris C-B

4-Oct-11 0:49

Have you tried with both firewalls turned off?

CodingLover4-Oct-11 18:49

4-Oct-11 18:49

Yes it is. But nothing works.

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Erudite_Eric4-Oct-11 1:21

Erudite_Eric

4-Oct-11 1:21

As ChrisB said, turn off the firewall.

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CodingLover5-Oct-11 16:37

5-Oct-11 16:37

I have already did that. But no luck.

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Bernhard Hiller4-Oct-11 2:16

Bernhard Hiller

4-Oct-11 2:16

There is another point: you must "Allow ICMP Echo Request", otherwise Windows won't send a reply back to sender.
See e.g. http://wiki.phys.ethz.ch/readme/how_to_enable_icmp_echo_requests_ping_in_windows_xp_service_pack_2[^]

CodingLover4-Oct-11 18:49

4-Oct-11 18:49

Bernhard Hiller wrote:
you must "Allow ICMP Echo Request"

Did it too. But no luck.

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Chris C-B4-Oct-11 23:20

Chris C-B

4-Oct-11 23:20

As all the suggestions you have received have drawn a blank, you will have to look deeper.

The only remaining possibilty that I can see is that the file shares and RDP are using the machine name, and you have DHCP enabled in the router (you are using one, aren't you?), and the IP has changed from what you thought it was on a new lease.

Otherwise, the whole thing is starting to look rather weird.

CodingLover5-Oct-11 16:41

5-Oct-11 16:41

I can access the file share and RDP using IP as well as the machine name. But cannot ping in either way. Earlier DHCP is disabled with my router, enable and tried the same. Still it's not working Chris. Wired!

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Erudite_Eric5-Oct-11 0:38

Erudite_Eric

5-Oct-11 0:38

Next you can try a dns cache fluch on both machines (ipconfig /flushdns). If you are pinging by machine name then you can get issues.

Next you want to look at the subnets the machines are on, and if they have routing between them set up correctly (I assume you can since other file and printer sharing seems to be working, but it is worth checking anyway).

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jschell5-Oct-11 9:21

jschell

5-Oct-11 9:21

You obviously have physical connectivity between the two boxes.

So exactly how is that physical connectivity achieved?

And why do you care if you can ping? It isn't all that useful.

CodingLover5-Oct-11 16:38

5-Oct-11 16:38

Simply connect them through a router.

I am worried, because it is quite unusual. I can RDP and access shared folders but cannot ping. It's interest to me to know that. Smile | :)

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Luc Pattyn5-Oct-11 17:15

Luc Pattyn

5-Oct-11 17:15

FWIW: I just had an issue with ping failing between two machines of which one had not only TCP/IPv4 but also v6 enabled on the network adapter I was using; disabling that solved it for me.

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CodingLover6-Oct-11 19:08

6-Oct-11 19:08

Finally! That solve my problem too. I have enabled v6 a long time back, and haven't thought of it at this incidence. Thanks for pointing me Luc

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Luc Pattyn6-Oct-11 19:12

Luc Pattyn

6-Oct-11 19:12

You're welcome.

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CodingLover3-Oct-11 0:10

3-Oct-11 0:10

Hi all,

Is there any single tool which I can use to collect all my system details (HDD, drivers, serial numbers, CPU, memory, etc..). Exporting to a file is handy.

Thanks
CodingLover

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jschell3-Oct-11 9:06

jschell

3-Oct-11 9:06

The type of system is relevant.

If it is windows then you can look at 'sysinternals' (now own by Microsoft.)

CodingLover3-Oct-11 17:42

3-Oct-11 17:42

Thanks for the reply.

Let me try it. Smile | :)

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Peter_in_27803-Oct-11 19:54

Peter_in_2780

3-Oct-11 19:54

Belarc Advisor. Free download, runs on any Windows box, tells you waaaay more than you need to know (such as every little thing Windows update did to you), as well as some really useful stuff, like your product keys for Windows, Office and many others.

Note to self: should submit it to Free Tools on CP.

Cheers,
Peter

Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994.