Due to security concern, by default you are not able to Ping a Windows Server 2008 machine. At first I though there is a problem with my network but actually it’s disabled. To enabled Ping reply from Windows Server 2008, goto Window Firewall with Advance Settings from Administrator Tools menu.
Look inside Inbound Rules, scroll down to File and Printer Sharing, right click and enable this rule. (pic below)
After that the check icon will turn green
For Windows Server Core which does not have any UI, you can enable this rule from the command prompt.
netsh firewall set icmpsetting 8
To disable it type
netsh firewall set icmpsetting 8 disable
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Comment by Rana Asim Wajid — 31, December 2009 @ 6:24 pm |
Thanks so much for this. Every time I install server I forget about this and spin my wheels trying to figure out why I can’t ping the newly configured machine. I’ll be blogging about this as well so I can remember it next time I run into it :-).
By the way, the netsh firewall command has been deprecated. The new command is netsh advfirewall firewall. Unfortunately I haven’t found any way to simple enable and disable rules using that syntax. Instead they seem to require you to create a new rule. I’m sure it’s possible, but I haven’t found it yet.
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Comment by Manas Sharma — 14, June 2011 @ 6:19 pm |
Thank you for your instructions. Much appreciated.
Comment by Max Wells — 28, September 2011 @ 4:54 am |
Thanks. It worked for me instantly. Just one concern that “file sharing” on a server sounds risky. Is there a rule just for enabling ping?
Comment by JP — 14, October 2011 @ 11:55 pm |
“netsh advfirewall firewall” synax (be sure to choose your profile, this is set to any):
netsh advfirewall firewall set rule name=”File and Printer Sharing (Echo Request – ICMPv4-In)” new enable=yes profile=any
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โnetsh advfirewall firewallโ synax for IPv6 (be sure to choose your profile, this is set to any):
netsh advfirewall firewall set rule name=โFile and Printer Sharing (Echo Request โ ICMPv6-In)โ new enable=yes profile=any
Comment by anonymous — 17, March 2012 @ 12:38 am |
Thanks. It worked for me.
Comment by Randeep — 17, April 2012 @ 8:02 pm |
Keep in mind that by enabling ping reply on your servers, your servers could be subjected to DoS (deny of service) attack since flooding a server with a large number of ping requests is very easy to do. You should take additional steps to further lock down the scope by right click on the File and Printer Sharing (Echo Request – ICMPv4 In) rule and if possible, specify which servers/computers and/or IP range can ping your servers.
Comment by Brian Dao — 30, May 2012 @ 2:39 am |
though the software firewall still has to recieve the packet, filter and drop. which isn’t that much less demanding that just echoing the request back. Also there are much more effective ways to DDoS a public server than using ICMP!
Comment by Adam Scarborough — 31, May 2012 @ 8:46 pm |
Yes, very true. It doesn’t stop Windows Firewall from receiving and processing the packets at all unless there’s an external device in play. However, it does discourage others from flooding your network with ICMP traffic since they don’t know exactly where on your network you are dropping it.
In a hosted environment, I find this works very well since most ISPs don’t really want to filter out any traffic unless they are under a massive attack.
Comment by Brian Dao — 31, May 2012 @ 8:59 pm
Still not working, getting no reply from my server.
It has an active internet connection since I can access it through Team Viewer.
How to resolve?
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Comment by indra — 19, September 2012 @ 5:36 pm |
Hi, thanks for the post. I need some help, how can i enable ping response from a machine that is inside the network to internet?… in other words, i have a virtual lab, it has 2 machines: windows 2008 std (the server) and windows xp (the client), after read your post i can ping the server from the client, but, i can’t ping from the client to internet (i.e ping google.com), the dns service resolves the ip for google.com but the ping doesn’t respond. Thanks a lot for any help. Sorry for my english ๐
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Thanks! My home server was working fine and I could connect remotely, but ping just wasn’t working. Searched on Google, and this was the first result. I’m getting ping replies perfectly now. Couldn’t be easier.
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Comment by John — 14, August 2015 @ 12:04 pm |
Well, this really work for me, I go to command line (CMD) and type “ping hlsserver” and there is a response bravo!!!!!, but the problem now is that if I use Run option in Windows UI is still no response, what could be?
Comment by Arthur Gallegos — 27, May 2016 @ 4:56 am |
If you want to use WUI to Ping reply from Windows Server 2008, going to Window Firewall with Advance Settings from Administrator Tools menu and activate in Inbound Rules also rule, after that the check icon will turn green also.
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