Stephen Reid wrote:
> Hi
> Up until today I have no problems at all, however today I went to use remote
> desktop on the laptop to control the PC and it didn't work. After
> investigating further I noticed that I cant ping the laptop from the main pc
> or vice versa. However, both the laptop and PC can ping the pda or router.
> Both seem perfectly on the network other than the fact they cant seem to see
> each other.
>
> The strange things was this was working yesterday and as far as I am aware I
> have only used either of them for surfing since.
>
> I hope someone can help as I am completely baffled with this.

If there's a firewall on the laptop and/or PC, disable & test via ping.
If everything works, experiment with the firewall settings until you
fix your problem.

If any of the laptops run XP (don't know whether the windows firewall
is present in earlier versions), there are settings that allow the
"remote desktop" function to work. Go to the control panel, select
"windows firewall", select the "exceptions" tab, and check off the box
next to "remote desktop".

> Thanks in advance

Sure.

> Stephen

-d