Steve,

I appreciate the feedback though I don't like the news <g>. I can not see my neighbors (which is good - I've seen this phenomena before) - but it sounds like whatever they're doing to "fix" that is screwing up my mapping capabilities huh?

Ken

>Hello Ken,
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>Apperently there are some cable modems that filter at the MAC level. It used to be that all cable modems were wide open...you can see your nextdoor neighbor in Network Neighborhood. I think that the modem manufacturers have tried to crack down on these security issues.
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>I had a customer with cable modems (in more than one office) that had this problem. We were able to map network drives accross the cable modem (even through a NAT shared IP address), until AT&T showed up one day and said they needed to put in new cable modems.
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>We have not been able to map network drives since...when I talked to tech support at AT&T they told me what I was trying to do was not supported by them. I could not get an absolute yes or no as to whether the new modem was causing the problem, or the new routers that we were being routed through.
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>I suspect the modem cause I've seen a cable modem/T1 line scenario where I could not map drives, but if I ran a CAT5 cable back to the T1 router I could map drives...without making changes in the workstation's network settings.
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>Bummer, huh? :~|
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>Take care,