Home Folder, Ping, Win Firewall

[dheida]

Just got our first Vista machine; loaded McAfee AV, a couple of other apps, and joined it to the domain with no problems. Now, I logged on as a regular user and the Home Folder (as setup in AD) is not mapping. Also, I cannot ping the Vista machine from my XP computer but can ping out. Windows Firewall you might say, well, I can't even get the Windows Firewall service to turn on!

 

[linney]

What errors messages are you seeing, if any? Are there errors in the Event Viewer?

If you load to "Safe Mode with Networking", can you get a Ping response?

Have you tried the "Diagnose and Repair" option in Vista via a right-click on the Network Icon in the Notification Area?

http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/networking.mspx

 

[dheida]

After I joined the computer to the network I put it in a group that changes Windows Firewall settings to allow Remote Assistance. Well, the Vista machine must not have liked those settings because I deleted: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsFirewall
then restarted and Windows Firewall came right up. Also, after turning on the Network Discovery tool, I was able to ping. Now I'm just left with getting the Home Folder to map.

 

[dheida]

The HP computer I'm doing this on had some sort of USB Mass Storage device on mapped to H: and I just kept checking whether the mapping was done using net use so I never saw that H: was already mapped.