Cable Modem Connection Problems

[Tread42]

Since I upgraded to XP Pro. I can't ping my companies remote webserver or map to my network places. I used to have a web folder connection to in under Win98. A co-worker has the same cable modem as mine and can connect fine in XP Pro by mapping a new network connection. I've tried looking at her settings and they seem to mirror mine but I can't get through. I'm using a firewall software of course but that's about all the special settings I know of. Any idea what could keep me from this since I've went to XP?

Thanks for any help.

Regards
Tread42

 

[FosTech]

Tread42,
This behavior can occur because the ICF closes, by default, the ports for file sharing.
To allow network file browsing with XP's firewall installed, click the following link to MS's knowlege base:
Article (Q298804)

http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...864&iterationID=1&sessionID=anonymous|7005193

-Brett

 

[Tread42]

I tried adding those ports and as the article suggested but still no luck. One thing to note is. The error I get is "The folder you entered does not appear to be valid. Please choose another." I even temporarily disabled the XP firewall and still couldn't connect? Any other thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.


Regards
Tread42

 

[linney]

Have a look at Microsoft Knowledge Base artice Q283190 at

http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...258&iterationID=1&sessionID=anonymous|7031939

Also Do a search at Google (groups) typing ""The folder you entered does not appear to be valid. Please choose another."" There are a couple of similar errors there. One of the solutions was this,

"There is a known issue where this error will occur when
users have their application data folder in their profile
redirected to a network location via group policy. The
workaround is to manually create the web folders cache
folder in their user profile location - under the
application data folder create a folder called MSDAIPP."


I didn't read all the pages I've left that to you. Good luck.

 

[Tread42]

Thanks for the help. I'll give it a try tonight.


Regards
Tread42

 

[Tread42]

I tried the resolutions found on MSDN and support.microsoft.com but none resolve my problem. The wierd thing is I can connect to some of the web servers via My Network Places. It's just this one that gives me trouble. It can't be the server however, because a co-worker hits it with XP and my Win98 dial-up box and laptop on Win 2000 on dialup can hit it.

Any other ideas/fixes would be very welcomed. I'm almost at wits end trying to figure this one out.

 

[Tread42]

anyone else out there have any ideas?

 

[Tread42]

Does anyone have any ideas? I've tried everything I can think of. I can type in the ip addy in a browser and it comes up fine but I can't ping, add a new network place, nor can I hit that FTP server. Any help would be greatly welcomed.

Regards
Tread42