fire wall in xp

[johnnycheapshot]

How can I tell if the firewall is off in win XP? I can not be pinged by friends is it xp or my ISP ATT/wesuck.

[Tbone1]

Ok if you go to start,control panel,look for network connections,
dbl click network and you should see your connection right click it
go to properties and select advanced,you should see a check box
enable(check) disable(uncheck)
Hope this helps
(this is in xp pro,I'm not to sure if its any diff than home edition)

[johnnycheapshot]

Thanks but that box is unchecked. ok heres the deal I like to play quake 2 and on occasion i like to run a server and did on win98se but now with xp pro i can't. I can't go into my buddys server and he can not come into mine we've tryed to ping eachother with no luck either way. I can ping web sights and yes i also run zonealarm pro off or on still no luck so i dont no whats going on like i said never had a prob with win98se. Mabe this will shed some mor light on the subject any help would be great.

[David]

try running it in win2k or 98se/me compatibility mode?

[Smizack]

Originally posted by johnnycheapshot
How can I tell if the firewall is off in win XP? I can not be pinged by friends is it xp or my ISP ATT/wesuck.

What message do you get when you try to ping yourself?
You need port 80 open. And I think 4144 <--not sure about that one though...

[-Exi|e-]

I read somewhere ( i think its here) that someone running a LAN in winXP couldnt connect to the other computers and vice versa, maybe the same thing like this is happening. Have you tried connecting to other servers?

[kd7aze]

Also, if you're running Win XP home, you can't form any kind of network unless your friend is also running XP.

Not 100% about how that applies to a game server, though.

Kid

[Chief]

Im the friend -- When he was running 98se as I am there was no prob connecting to each other.That was before the @home to attbs switch.During the downtime he changed over to xp.We are on the same node but can not ping each other but I can ping someone on the next street tho Im not sure he is on same node.Might this be something attbs is doing or is this an xp pro issue? btw his xp firewall is off and went as far as removing zap 2.6 but......

[cornbread]

Just a guess here, but make sure you have the right ip's of each other. I noticed you (chief) said you were in the @home switch mess...so was I and for some reason my ip addy had changed.

[Chief]

LOL Yes the Ip's are correct,I really do think its something in his xp settings that we can not find.He's going to dualboot 98se so we'll see but would like to figure this out.

[johnnycheapshot]

Well i'm back with no luck to report still cant find anthing in win xp pro that would block me from pinging a private home. OH yes i do have permission to do so. lol and they cant ping me nice firewall just wish i could find it. funny thing is though it saya its off. oh well time for win 98 dam i do like xp sniff sniff. lol . still open for any ideas though.

p.s thanks for all the help .
Have a great holiday.