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Vista does not ping

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by shennyr

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I'm trying to connect PCANYWHERE from Vista as Remote to a XP host. I can't ping the host from the VISTA computer. I'm able to ping the host from any other pc.

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by nimmo

Try turning on Vista's network discovery and check the firewall to make sure its allowing ICMP packets. If you have a third party firewall drop it then see if the ping's work.

by shennyr

Thanks for the reply. I have done what you recommend: Network discovery on and allowing ICMP packets with all.

Still can ping out the computer that needs to be used. Any other recomendations...

by nimmo

Take a look at the gateway that is set on the Vista PC, also if you have any A/V or firewalls drop them and see if you can ping.

If you can ping after you do this enable the A/V try to ping again, if that succeeds then your firewall will be the culpurt so you will need to add an exception to allow ICMP.

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