Discussion Locked

XP Home Stopped Sharing - Doesn't Answer Pings

0 helpful
1 reply
Closed to new repliesThis discussion is closed. It stays readable, but it takes no new replies.

Small workgroup network of XP (sp3) systems. One system has "gone mute". It can ping/browse/access-shares on other systems in the workgroup, but it doesn't respond to pings/browses/share-accesses from the other systems -- INCLUDING ITSELF!

Attempting to access it's own shares via network neighborhood or running "\\computername\sharename" gets the same "...not acccessible. You might not have permission...network path not found" error that the other systems get when trying to access this system.

**UPDATE** ran the Network Setup Wizard, and the system is now able to see/access it's own shares, but still doesn't answer pings or allow access by other systems

1 reply

by jeffe_verde

restored the Winsock and IP stack settings via-

-netsh winsock reset catalog
-netsh int ip reset reset.log

I suspect this was the work of malware. Time to dig out HijackThis

This discussion is closed to new replies.