Vista not accessible on home workgroup

You're on Vista but this might lead to some results for your firewall

AHH! Here's the vista FW Setup

Thanks for your reply.

In your first reply to me you seem to imply that ping isn't that important? Why was that? Why did you change you mind?

Here are the results from your 2 above suggestions.

1) It's for Win7 and not Vista. The page is just a lot of users not getting any joy from that particular solution.

2) I've already tried those ICMP settings and I said so my first post that I had tried it and it didn't work.

I have a feeling that I might have to reinstall Vista as networking is something that is just too complicated for humans to understand! I might just install Linux and have done with Windows altogether.

Thank you for your ongoing support
Steve

PING is not important for sharing nor does it assist in any access. Ping only says
the remote end is {a} active and {b} so configured as to allow a reply. Disabling PING reply
is one of many approaches to securing a system.

You're seen "Path Not Found" type messages and this is exactly where PING is of use.
So, why not find all issues with PING? New in Vista is the firewall default to disable ping reply - -
doesn't that prompt the question "What else is Vista doing?". I will not insult you by asking for TCP settings
for all your systems and will assume they're correct - - so it's got to be elsewhere.

I went from XP/Pro to Win/7 Pro without Vista. My experience with 7 has been interesting, but no where
as difficult as yours with Vista. As the XP hardware failed, I don't have another windows platform for these
settings, but my Macintosh and Red Hat Fedora sure love Win/7 and we share all three ways.

Hi JOBEARD
I installed the LLTD Responder Hotfix for XP SP3 but still no pinging. All the machines were visible to each other before anyway.

I am attempting a reinstall of Vista to see what, if anything, that does.

Cheers
Steve

So post#21 was applied w/o results?

Hi JOBEARD
Yes I had tried setting incoming rules for the firewall before even posting on here.

This is becoming a nightmare isn't it.

Let me reinstall Vista and see what that does.

Thanks again
STeve

TRY THIS FIRST

CMD Prompt and enter SFC /SCANNOW

Hi JOBEARD

PROBLEM COMPLETELY SOLVED!!! by destructive reinstall of Vista....

SFC /scannow found shed loads of corrupt files and reported that it couldn't fix some of them. Tried ping and still it didn't work.

After reinstall all network access is fully functional.

Please accept my heartfelt thanks for all your efforts in trying to help me. I have learned a few things.
Cheers
Steve

GREAT NEWS. Now it will be your turn to contribute to help whenever possible.

Enjoy.