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do you have TCP/IP enabled on those machines?
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Of course.
I appreciate your help all the time...
CodingLover
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Check your firewall settings. I don't know what firewall you are using but if it is the XP standard firewall, and it is turned on, then you will need to set the appropriate exceptions, or ping will not respond.
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Yes Chris, I already did that too.
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CodingLover
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Have you tried with both firewalls turned off?
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Yes it is. But nothing works.
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CodingLover
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As ChrisB said, turn off the firewall.
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Nothing to say.
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I have already did that. But no luck.
I appreciate your help all the time...
CodingLover
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Bernhard Hiller wrote: you must "Allow ICMP Echo Request"
Did it too. But no luck.
I appreciate your help all the time...
CodingLover
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As all the suggestions you have received have drawn a blank, you will have to look deeper.
The only remaining possibilty that I can see is that the file shares and RDP are using the machine name, and you have DHCP enabled in the router (you are using one, aren't you?), and the IP has changed from what you thought it was on a new lease.
Otherwise, the whole thing is starting to look rather weird.
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I can access the file share and RDP using IP as well as the machine name. But cannot ping in either way. Earlier DHCP is disabled with my router, enable and tried the same. Still it's not working Chris. Wired!
I appreciate your help all the time...
CodingLover
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Next you can try a dns cache fluch on both machines (ipconfig /flushdns). If you are pinging by machine name then you can get issues.
Next you want to look at the subnets the machines are on, and if they have routing between them set up correctly (I assume you can since other file and printer sharing seems to be working, but it is worth checking anyway).
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You obviously have physical connectivity between the two boxes.
So exactly how is that physical connectivity achieved?
And why do you care if you can ping? It isn't all that useful.
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Simply connect them through a router.
I am worried, because it is quite unusual. I can RDP and access shared folders but cannot ping. It's interest to me to know that. 
I appreciate your help all the time...
CodingLover
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FWIW: I just had an issue with ping failing between two machines of which one had not only TCP/IPv4 but also v6 enabled on the network adapter I was using; disabling that solved it for me.
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Finally! That solve my problem too. I have enabled v6 a long time back, and haven't thought of it at this incidence. Thanks for pointing me Luc
I appreciate your help all the time...
CodingLover
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You're welcome.
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Hi all,
Is there any single tool which I can use to collect all my system details (HDD, drivers, serial numbers, CPU, memory, etc..). Exporting to a file is handy.
Thanks
CodingLover
I appreciate your help all the time...
CodingLover
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The type of system is relevant.
If it is windows then you can look at 'sysinternals' (now own by Microsoft.)
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Thanks for the reply.
Let me try it.
I appreciate your help all the time...
CodingLover
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Belarc Advisor. Free download, runs on any Windows box, tells you waaaay more than you need to know (such as every little thing Windows update did to you), as well as some really useful stuff, like your product keys for Windows, Office and many others.
Note to self: should submit it to Free Tools on CP.
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994.
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Excellent answer, Peter - I was just about to post the same suggestion. I've used it for years, and I really wish I could get the company to spring for a license. If the Pro version is as good as the free one, it would make life much simpler in our small company. We have about 20 machines in all, of varying ages, each with different software installed, and keeping track of it all is a nightmare.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Hi all.
What is difference between "drive", "logical drive" and "partition" in disk organization?
If a drive can contain some partition or a partition can contain some drive?
What is difference between drive and logical drive?
Excuse me for bad English and confused question.
Thanks a'lot.
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- A drive is generally a physical device that is, or behaves like, a random access disk.
- A logical drive is a portion of a physical disk that is managed by software so it appears to the user as a physical drive. A logical drive is addressed as if it starts at address zero, even if it is physically located elsewhere on the device.
- A partition is some portion of a physical disk that may be managed as a logical drive or raw device.
For example a physical disk with 1000 sectors could be partitioned as follows:
0 - 50 Partition 1 : raw drive used by Operating System
51 - 250 Partition 2 : logical drive C
251 - 990 Partition 3 : logical drive D
991 - 999 Partition 4 : raw drive used by Operating System
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