I was recently told by a friend of mine that they had a problem setting up 2 computers to make a simple network because machine1 could ping machine2 but machine2 could not ping machine1 and then to make matters more confusing machine2 had no problems pinging google servers and machine1 could access the files hosted on machine2 but machine2 couldn't access files hosted on machine1. It was explained to me that they tested everything from: rebuilding the OS to triple checking the configurations. disabling firewalls on everything entirely on each device and even changing all the hardware/cables except the actual desktops them self yet machine2 still could not interact with machine1 but machine1 had no problems interacting with machine2. They even went to the length of switching over to an unmanaged switch but to no avail. After hearing all this I told him that despite his claims that the configs where perfect there must be an error somewhere. So I was wondering if anyone had seen this before or has a solution. Please keep in mind that the 2 people making this small network have about 2 decades of experience with networks much larger between them so I do believe they have tried everything that I suggested to them already.
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