Hello MT forum…
I have searched the forum for a definitive answer to my question.
Why do the target devices I add to The Dude even though they are accessible show as there is not ping?
On the Windows 7 machine I even turned down the firewall all together, there is no other firewalling or filtering going on, just my remote office.
From the core router I can ping the Windows 7 machine and vice versa.
Thank you for your input regarding this.
Best Regards
Disable UAC, run the dude as Administrator, make sure the dude user can read/write to it’s folder in program files and the the c:\ drive since some cfg file gets dropped there.
Lebowski
Thank you for the reply Lebowski… 
I will make those changes that you suggest tomorrow.
Best Regards
I was having this exact same problem. I had already tried running as administrator, but had not disabled UAC. I disabled UAC, and everything started working. Thank you!