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For some reason I can't connect to or ping a server 2k3 (enterprise) machine I just setup from my windows 7 machine.

I use DD-wrt with a wrt54g v4 router, and I've assigned them both static leases so they receive their same respective IPs constantly.

I can ping the w7 from the 2k3, but not the other way around - The router does show it assigned the lease and the connection is active for both machines though.

What am I missing here?

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Check your Windows Server firewall settings. You may have disabled the ping response. – Randolph West Nov 23 '10 at 3:35
It's a stock install, unless that's a default setting – Bob Nov 23 '10 at 3:38
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Turns out I had to click 'finish' on the initial setup wizard - I closed it with alt+f4 and manually configured windows update; when I restarted the computer and clicked finish it gave me a message saying 'Oh by the way now inbound traffic will be allowed, k?'...

That was nice of Windows to protect me, I suppose. Heh.

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Well that's good to know. Please accept your answer so that it can be closed. – Randolph West Nov 23 '10 at 5:11
Good point! My poor acceptance rate – Bob Feb 11 '11 at 18:04
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