Re: Unable to ping some machines - others ok???

From: Brad Pears (donotreply_at_notreal.com)
Date: 11/08/05 

Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 15:24:01 -0500

See my responses below... IP addresses etc.. THe laptop is beign assigned
using DHCP - while the server is static.
"Gary" <Gary@neveremailme.com> wrote in message
news:OBZo0zJ5FHA.1416@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> What is:
> The IP Address of the laptop: 192.168.2.47
> The subnet of the laptop: 255.255.255.0
> The default gateway of the laptop: 192.168.2.2
>
> The IP Address of the SQL server: 192.168.2.20
 The subnet of the SQL server: 255.255.255.0
> The default gateway of the server: 192.168.2.2
>
>
> "Brad Pears" <donotreply@notreal.com> wrote in message
> news:OFgEvPJ5FHA.1420@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>> We are working on setting up one of our saleperson's laptop with an
>> application that requires it to connect to our Windows 2000 SQL server.
>>
>> The laptop has XP Home installed. We were having problems connecting and
>> decided to attempt to ping the machine to troubleshoot the issue. We were
>> unable to ping the SQL server by name or IP address. When we ping by
>> name, the IP address is returned but it just times out. We were however,
>> successfully able to ping other machines on the LAN no probs. Then we
>> happened to try my XP Pro machine, and was unable to ping it as well!!!
>> My firewall is not turned on. and other machines can ping mine with no
>> issues.
>>
>> What should we be doing to try to troubleshoot this issue?? Why would it
>> be able to ping some machines and not others on the LAN??
>>
>> Any help in this matter would be greatly appreciated!
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Brad
>>
>
>

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