Topic: Should I be able to ping PCs on my LAN?

[Ness]

Symptoms:

When connected to the console (locally or through SSL remotely), I can't ping certain local Windows XP IPs.

I know they are active leases (using ipconfig /all) and know the PCs in question can see the LAN and WAN (by using ping on the PCs in question out to a remote IP).

The server is set up to offer 10.0.0.10 - 10.0.0.50 with a mask of 255.255.255.000 and sure enough ALL PCs get a good IP from the server, but when they are active, I try pinging SOME of them and get no reply while I get a good reply from others.

I had to do this today as the user was experiencing sporadic difficulties with connectivity.

Any clues?

Chris E

[stefan24]

When connected to the console (locally or through SSL remotely), I can't ping certain local Windows XP IPs.
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Any clues?

XP Firewall active?
Do those, which do NOT respond, contain XP SP2?

Can you ping the SME server from all of the XP clients?

[Ness]

Ah! Nice point... thanks.

I'd expect the failing one's to be SP2 loads as they are very recent additons.

SME can be pinged from all clients ok.

Cheers

Chris