On Mon, 7 Nov 2005 20:57:02 -0800, "brandon_r87"
<brandonr87@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Dell - XP Home SP2, Compaq - XP Home SP2, Gateway - XP MCE 2005
>
>Sorry if the Presario Info is hard to read, in sending it over it got a
>little garbled up so I tried to fix as much of it as I couldby looking at the
>others.

<SNIP>

OK, Brandon,

You've got an interesting set of problems. I'll give you the simplest ones to
see, which are symmetrical.
# All 3 computers cannot ping themselves, by name or by IP address, getting name
resolution OK, but timing out.
# However, Dell and Compaq can reference the other in all 4 tests successfully.
# Gateway can Net View itself, but neither Dell or Compaq.
# Dell and Compaq can Net View each other and itself, but neither can Net View
Gateway.
# All 3 computers can Net View both Dell and Compaq; none can Net View Gateway.

The only known causes for pings blocked is a firewall, or LSP / Winsock
corruption.
Firewalls:
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/your-personal-firewall-can-either-help.html>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/0...ther-help.html
LSP / Winsock:
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/problems-with-lsp-winsock-layer-in.html>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/0...-layer-in.html

Please check everything very diligently, and let us know what you find out. I'd
really like to try and correlate the observations from CDiag against precise
causes. And of course having your Windows Networking operational would be good.
;-)

--
Cheers,
Chuck, MS-MVP [Windows - Networking]
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/
Paranoia is not a problem, when it's a normal response from experience.
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