Re: Configuration problem? Can someone help??

From: Robert Aldwinckle (robald_at_techemail.com)
Date: 09/08/04 

Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 00:58:36 -0400

"James D" <newsgroopie@NOSPAM.yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:%23veRYCJlEHA.2680@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>I cannot access ANY streams in YP.Shoutcast.com by clicking on the "Tune In"
> button.

Have you tried right-click, Save As... ?

> I by passed the router, that didn't change anything. I did a ping
> and traceroute. The ping failed, the traceroute timed out after 12 hops.

It appears that ICMP is blocked somewhere near there.
telnet 80 would be a better connectivity test anyway.
FWIW it responds to me for GET /
(that's GET<space><slash><Enter>)

> I went to a couple of the other computers on my LAN and THEY work! OK, so I
> set out to compare, first I upgraded to the latest release of Winamp. Next I
> matched the settings in Winamp and MSIE "exactly". I've cleared the cache,
> cookies and history, flushed the dns, PLUS, disabled everything in msconfig.
> I still get this error message.
>
> I called my ISP and they told me "Basically, Windows is not recognizing the
> file properly. Since we already tried restoring defaults in the browser and
> it is still not opening, there is a configuration issue in windows that is
> preventing it from opening properly."

Do you think you have an association established for .pls?
What is the filetype?

One way to find out would be to enter in a command window:

    assoc .pls

then with whatever that showed (say .pls=plsfile) enter:

    ftype plsfile

and see what program is associated with that filetype.
It's possible that it could be something you installed into your TIF
and it now is gone. If so just remove that filetype. You could actually
do that with the ftype command but I would use the Folder Options
File Types tool instead. E.g. Run... control folders and choose that
tab, etc.

Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle 

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> So To recap, I bypassed the router, tried ping, traceroute, flushing the
> DNS, upgrading all software in question, matching configurations "exactly"
> and even disabling all items in msconfig.
>
> I am on Windows XP Home SP1a
>
> Side note: I did a ping on the computer that did connect, it pinged once
> then timed out. It ALSO failed the traceroute after 12 hops. BUT, it still
> can connect to the shoutcast streams!
>
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