znam Posted July 7, 2003 Report Share Posted July 7, 2003 Ping service on my computer is turned off. Does anybody know how to enable it? I have XP Professional OS.Thank you,Oleg. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted July 7, 2003 Report Share Posted July 7, 2003 Whats telling you it's turned off? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ellas Posted July 7, 2003 Report Share Posted July 7, 2003 try an ipconfig /release then ipconfig /renew what sort of connection do you have dial up,cable modem or what. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
znam Posted July 7, 2003 Author Report Share Posted July 7, 2003 I know that it is turned off for the following reason. When I run "ping loopback", I get time outs. In addition, I remember that I turned it off. Now I want to turn it on and do not remember how :-).I have DSL configured as LAN, but I think ping service is configured either through TCP/IP properties ("Control Panel"->"Network Connections"->"LAN(or whatever connection you have)"->Properties->"General Tab"->"Internet Protocol(TCP/IP)"->Properties) or services ("Control Panel"->"Administrative Tools"->Services). However, I couldn't find how to run the ping service in either way. Oleg. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark2 Posted July 8, 2003 Report Share Posted July 8, 2003 Have you tried XP help and support centre?When you say "ping loopback" which IP are you pinging?Is the firewall set to allow "ping" to connect to the network ? Which Firewall ?Have you had a look in event viewer for problems?If the ping command is not found or the command fails, you can use Event Viewer to check the System Log and look for problems reported by Setup or the Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) service. The ping command uses Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) Echo Request and Echo Reply messages. Packet filtering policies on routers, firewalls, or other types of security gateways might prevent the forwarding of this traffic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarthy © ® ™ Posted July 8, 2003 Report Share Posted July 8, 2003 znam your profile says you have XP Home??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
znam Posted July 8, 2003 Author Report Share Posted July 8, 2003 To mark2:>Have you tried XP help and support centre?Yes, I did, but could not find any hint how to run the ping service (ping daemon) on the computer>When you say "ping loopback" which IP are you pinging?"ping loopback" is the actual command you can run on Windows (at least 2000 and XP). In such a case, it pings the 127.0.0.1 IP address.Is the firewall set to allow "ping" to connect to the network ? Which Firewall ?> The firewall is not set, at least on my computer. The ping requests from my computer to my computer do not go over the network.>Have you had a look in event viewer for problems?There is nothing could be found in the event viewer because the "ping" command (which is the client for the ping service) itselft works fine. The problem is that I cannot run a ping service (ping daemon) on my computer. Regards,Oleg. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark2 Posted July 8, 2003 Report Share Posted July 8, 2003 It's just ping loopback you have lost ?Have you used any other security programs that may be blocking 127.0.0.1 ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark2 Posted July 8, 2003 Report Share Posted July 8, 2003 Also found Ping 127.0.0.1 or Ping loopbackIf you are running ping loopback your Hosts file has been alteredhere Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
znam Posted July 8, 2003 Author Report Share Posted July 8, 2003 mark2,Thank you very much for your time and effort to help to resolve the "ping service" issue.This windows drives me crazy!Thanks to your link, now I know that "ping service" is called the "echo service". In order to install it, you need to install "add/remove programs"->"add/remove widnows components"->"Networking services"->"Details"->"simple tcp services".I did all this. However, pinging my localhost 127.0.0.1 still fails. The most intriguing thing is that some echo service does run! I know that for the following reason:1. when I start the "simple tcp services" and run "telnet 127.0.0.1 7" (echo service listens on the port #7), I see that there is some service accepting requests.2. when I stop the "simple tcp services" and run "telnet 127.0.0.1 7" (echo service listens on the port #7), I get:Connecting To 127.0.0.1...Could not open connection to the host, on port 7.No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.I restarted the computer, I tried to ping from another computer, the behaviour is the same. So, I guess the problem lies in my "echo service" and not in my "ping client". (In addition, I succeed to ping other computers :-))Oleg. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndySD Posted July 9, 2003 Report Share Posted July 9, 2003 Networking Troubleshooting might help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
znam Posted July 10, 2003 Author Report Share Posted July 10, 2003 Today I noted other weird behaviour of my networking:1. Yahoo messanger cannot connect to its messenger server, although ICQ, Windows Messenger and Netmeeting have no problems.2. Internet explorer cannot connect to sites through the "https" protocol. Niether Netscape. The error they recieve is "connection refused". Thus I assume this is not a problem of internet explorer configuration.Both yahoo messenger and IE immediately display the error, thus, I can say with high probability that no packets are sent by my PC. In addition when I look at LAN status, it shows that no bits are sent over the network.I suspected that this could be a virus. However, I ran the Norton Antivirus scan (through their web site, thus, ensuring I used the most up-to-date virus definitions file) and it did not find any viruses. NAV claims that it scanned my files and memory.Does anybody have any clue what's going on in my PC?Thanks,Oleg. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
znam Posted July 10, 2003 Author Report Share Posted July 10, 2003 OK, I found the cause for all my troubles :-). I write it here in the case somebody else will have the same problem. I had norton antivirus. At some point of time I decided to disable it, but there was no way to stop it from starting when computer started (althoug in the disabled state). So, I ran msconfig and removed "v"s from the NAV services. They stopped starting. I was happy. BUT, I was unaware, that NAV, in return, caused me all those problems that drove me crazy. After I uninstalled NAV, everything started to work fine. THANKS GOD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
znam Posted July 10, 2003 Author Report Share Posted July 10, 2003 Ooo, I forgot: Let me thank all you guys who tried to help me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark2 Posted July 10, 2003 Report Share Posted July 10, 2003 operator error then ? :D Glad it's sorted. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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