Greetings, I'm Professor Kay. And in this short video presentation, we're going to see how we go about enabling ping for server 2016, and our windows 10 client. So by default, when you add a machine to a domain, if it is a Windows Server, or it is a Windows client, you probably won't be able to ping it by default. Now, domain controllers are supposed to be able to allow ping, to and from, but that's not always the case. So to troubleshoot, it's really easy. If you're having issues with trying to ping from your domain controller over to a client or a member server, and it's not working.
If you go to that client or that member server and you disable the firewall, and then you try to ping and it works well then you know that the firewall is blocking the ICMP packets real simple. Now, the same thing can be said on a domain controller. If you're trying to ping a domain controller from a client or a member server and it's not happening. If you go to that domain controller and you disable the firewall, just for a test, and the ping works, well then you know that firewall is blocking. So let's see how we can enable ping without disabling our firewall. I'm currently on my DC one, and I'm going to right click on my start button.
From here, I'm going to open up a command prompt will do with admin. I'm now going to attempt to ping the IP address of my windows 10 client by typing in ping followed by the IP address. And now I'm going to hit Enter. And you notice that the ping is not working. The ICMP packets are not getting through to my Windows 10 client. Let's go ahead and stop that Ctrl C. Now let's go over to my Windows 10 client.
So now I'm on my windows 10 client. So I'm just going to hit the Windows key plus our bring up a command prompt here real quick, by just typing in CMD into the run line. I'm hit OK. Now I'm going to try to ping VC one. And you'll notice that DC one will allow the pink packet to traverse its network adapter. So I have been working one way I can ping from my workstation over to my domain controller. But I need to ping from my domain controller over to my workstation.
So I'm going to have to allow packets, ICMP packets or ping to traverse the network adapter on this windows 10 machine. And now let's see how we do that. I'm on my windows 10 client, go ahead and click on the start button. Let's go to control panel. From control panel, scroll on down here come to the Windows Firewall, open that up. Once the Windows Firewall has opened up, go ahead and click on Advanced Settings.
And from here, we're going to click on inbound rules. So you want to scroll down until you come to file and print sharing echo request. Now this is going to allow the echo request to come in. Now you'll notice that we have it enabled on a couple of these. So you can just right click on any of them that are not enabled. And you can select Enable rule.
And now that rule is enabled, another thing you're going to have to check on is right click and go to properties. And up here under Advanced, scroll on down to where it talks about edge traversal. pull this down and you want to allow edge traversal. This will allow machines that are on a different subnet to be able to ping across that switch or that router and be able to get a response back from the machine that they're trying to ping. Go ahead and say Apply. I'd say okay, let's go into then all of them here.
And make sure that that allowed edge traversal is selected. See, okay. They also want to do that for your TCP IP version six as well. All right, so you got all that done. Now let's go ahead and close this out. And let's go on back over to our VC one and try to ping again.
So I'm back over my DC one, I'm going to go ahead and use my up arrow, bring up that last command for pinging my windows 10 client. I'm gonna hit enter And you'll notice now that the ping request does work. So you're going to have to do that on your servers, if it's not working, as well as your clients if you want ping to be able to work both ways. That concludes this short video presentation on how we go about enabling ping to work between our different clients, our member servers and our domain controllers. Now if you have any questions about any of the material that was covered in this short video presentation, please do not hesitate to reach out contact your instructor and I'll see you in my next video.