I Can't access Dell laptop from desktop, but can access desktop from laptop?

Question

both are running with windows Xp

both disk drives are shared

desktop and laptop firewall is off

i can ping with desktop but can't ping with laptop

Answer 1

probablly the lan card of the laptop is corruted

see if there are other slots in the lan card

or just change the lan wire and interchange the ends of the connection

this will help you

if still no

then seewhether some other antivirus of firewall is running in the laptop

that is only problem

there mustabe a protocol error only

go to the network connectons then properties then tcp/ip properties then see if both of them have the same protocols installed

i suppose...............

Answer 2

Check your anti-virus so make sure that it's not blocking the ping or file share access. Try and access the laptop by using ip address intead of name. Make sure "file and print sharing" is on both. Check that both are on the same subnet and that the user accounts have access to both. If you are using a router to act as a switch, check to see if MAC address of both are allowed.