This may sound like a stupid question, but are you running XP and is the XP firewall turned on? In safe mode there's not firewall or
anything. I have seen people have this type of problem before and it was either the XP firewall or a third party firewall they had
installed. Ping is disallowed by default on the XP firewill and most third party firewalls.

Just a thought

David Azose wrote:
> A new Sony computer replaced an aging PIII. But now my wife's wireless
> laptop can't see or print to the Shared printer on my Sony. I have a
> Linksys wireless G router and the Sony is wired to one of it's ports.
> Both of our computers can access the internet and surf the web.
>
> After many hours on the phone with Sony support, and after "recovering"
> the operating system and reinstalling all my applications, and after
> deleting and reinstalling the latest Intel network port driver, Sony
> support sent a service person to my house to replace the motherboard.
> That didn't fix the problem. The service person discovered that I
> couldn't ping myself and suggested that one of the programs that makes
> up the "stack" of the network driver must be corrupted and may not get
> overwritten when doing a new driver install. Then he left!
>
> I discovered that in "Safe Mode With Networking" I COULD ping myself and
> also the laptop could see and access the Sony and the Sony could see and
> access the laptop. However, in safe-mode, my Sony reports no printers
> installed so I still couldn't print from the laptop. This seems to be a
> driver issue, but where do I go from here?
>
> David Azose

Dennis Willson wrote:
> This may sound like a stupid question, but are you running XP and is the
> XP firewall turned on? In safe mode there's not firewall or anything. I
> have seen people have this type of problem before and it was either the
> XP firewall or a third party firewall they had installed. Ping is
> disallowed by default on the XP firewill and most third party firewalls.
>
> Just a thought
>
> David Azose wrote:
>
>> A new Sony computer replaced an aging PIII. But now my wife's wireless
>> laptop can't see or print to the Shared printer on my Sony. I have a
>> Linksys wireless G router and the Sony is wired to one of it's ports.
>> Both of our computers can access the internet and surf the web.
>>
>> After many hours on the phone with Sony support, and after
>> "recovering" the operating system and reinstalling all my
>> applications, and after deleting and reinstalling the latest Intel
>> network port driver, Sony support sent a service person to my house to
>> replace the motherboard. That didn't fix the problem. The service
>> person discovered that I couldn't ping myself and suggested that one
>> of the programs that makes up the "stack" of the network driver must
>> be corrupted and may not get overwritten when doing a new driver
>> install. Then he left!
>>
>> I discovered that in "Safe Mode With Networking" I COULD ping myself
>> and also the laptop could see and access the Sony and the Sony could
>> see and access the laptop. However, in safe-mode, my Sony reports no
>> printers installed so I still couldn't print from the laptop. This
>> seems to be a driver issue, but where do I go from here?
>>
>> David Azose
Dennis,

Thanks for the reply. The service person that Sony sent out did turn off
the XP firewall on both computers, but that didn't solved the problem. I
haven't purchased, downloaded or installed any third party firewall
software. I think I'm going to bite the bullet and pay for some
Microsoft Support to see if I can get a "clean" install of the network
connetor driver. Thanks again.

David