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Network Nightmares. Unable to ping
Hello! First time here.
I have four computers on a home network, two (A&B) running Win7 Home Premium 64bit. Two (C&D) running XP SP3. The two Win7's are recent installs but I had lot's of similar troubles with an earlier install of Win7 Ultimate, so I switched to Home hoping I could fix this. Yeah, right.
Belkin N750 router. All wired. All are named Workgroup. All computers can access the internet. All can access and share files except B, C & D can't access or ping A. I'm running Norton NIS 2011 on each machine and the security map sees all computers properly. I've run a couple different LAN programs from B,C & D and each time they can see A is on the network but still can't access it.
I've disabled the NIS firewall,uninstalled NIS and even booted in Safe Mode (with NIS installed) and still can't ping A.
I've tried both static and DHCP on A, set NetBios over TCP/IP.
I've spent many many hours working on this and twice as many searching the net and trying fixes but nothing has worked so far. I know it's probably something simple but so far I can't seem to find it. I hate to reinstall Win7 because the problem has been here since the beginning.
I find it absolutely ridiculous that so many have similar issues with Windows networking. TeamViewer needs to build an alternative to Microsoft's network. I had a similar nightmare with Windows Remote Desktop a few years back and TV fixed that problem instantly.
Ideas?
Thanks.