hi all,
so i’ve looking around for a while for answers to my problem that seems to be shared by
a lot of you guys.
here are the facts:
– 2 machines XP SP2 on a linksys lan. Desktop (D) and Laptop (L).
– D pings L, accesses its web pages, telnet, ftp etc…
The problem is with L accessing D:
– L cannot ping D. It used to work fine until I had to rebuild D as of a HD crash.
– L and D can both see/write each others shared files thru explorer
– L and D can both access internet
– DHCP network.
– windows Firewall is more than set off ie. disabled on both of them (I still explicitly set icmp on in case FW would still do something under the hood)
– connexion is both wired and wireless
– I have no other Firewall installed on any of them
– name resolution works for both of them
– telnet works on default port but no other (like 80 though apache has started
correctly) from L to D (for some reason I can’t see the telnet service on L so I can’t telnet L)
– L can ping itself and others on the internet.
– I have McAffee security center on both of them.
– Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0 for L and D
– NetBios and IP Link are set for both L & D, tcp prop is set for IP and dns address determined automagically.
IP addresses are differents when assigned so no conflicts there. All I can think of then is that it could be some services that should be started/configured in a particular if not peculiar way.
Once this issue is solved I’ll be glad to share it because of the overstupidness of it.
Any thoughts out there on how to tackle this ?
Thanks