Hi, Ping should be allowed outbound from the box. If you want machines to be "pingable" on the LAN, you need to enable echo response in the way you describe. Can you confirm that pings going out from the box are working ok (try to ping the gateway). Thanks. Andrew. -----Original Message----- From: blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Mario Percinic Sent: 04 June 2010 20:35 To: Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Problems with ping on win7 Hello there. I need some help with solving the problem with ping on my win 7 machine at home. I just found out that by default ping doesn't work on win7 and that windows firewall has to be reconfigured by creating new rule which would accept icmp. I created new rule with the following settings: rule type, custom, allowed connection yes, access from and to any ip address yes, under protocol tipe i selected icmpv4 and under settings, i selected specific icmp tipes, where i checked the box which says, echo requests. However after applying the rule , nothing changed and ping can not be acomplished successfully. Oh btw, the machine goes out thru thompson 780 w router, with its firewall turned off. any suggestions? Mario Percinic ICT specialist for accessible technology mail/googletalk/msn: mario.percinic@gmail.com skype: acousticman GSM: +385922630259 _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins