Topic: network problem sme 7.1.3

[florim]

Hello i have upgrade my sme box to latest updates but now i have little problem and i cant find any solutions my problem is that i can ping the server form my local machine but i cant ping from server ssh to my workstation i have installed vpn bridge and i working fine from my workstation that is conected to local network i can ping clients that are connected to my server through vpn but they cant ping me where is problem please help


best regards

[florim]

this mean that no one else has idea what is going on  

[Confucius]

Too little details

For a start...

Workstation is prob. windows ?
Does this workstation have a firewall blocking ping requests ?

Server seems to do ok based on your story. So I would dig in the workstation differences.

Harro

[mike_mattos]

I replaced a motherboard with onboard LAN card & reinstalled XP on a machine to solve this problem, it came back a week later!

turned out McAfee was somehow creating a list of acceptable IP's and changing SME server with a new IP range meant the new server could not ping the work station even though the station was a SAMBA client!
 
this problem also killed VPN to the mcafee infected workstation!  

Finally found the right panel in Mcafee to undo the block.  No idea why the local network was blocked in Mcafee, I suspect it was some cryptic message like "unknown computer trying to access your system, allow/deny" , user clicks deny, and BAM, no ping and no VPN!

[mike_mattos]

I replaced a motherboard with onboard LAN card & reinstalled XP on a machine to solve this problem, it came back a week later!

turned out McAfee was somehow creating a list of acceptable IP's and changing SME server with a new IP range meant the new server could not ping the work station even though the station was a SAMBA client!
 
this problem also killed VPN to the mcafee infected workstation!  

Finally found the right panel in Mcafee to undo the block.  No idea why the local network was blocked in Mcafee, I suspect it was some cryptic message like "unknown computer trying to access your system, allow/deny" , user clicks deny, and BAM, no ping and no VPN!