You cannot connect to Windows SharePoint Services in Office 2003 (826888)

SYMPTOMS

• When you try to fill out a form on the SharePoint home page, Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 may stop responding.
• When you try to Save As or Publish data in Microsoft Office OneNote 2003, you may receive the following error message:
  Cannot find the URL URL, please check your typing
• When you use a FrontPage template to create a one-page Web site, you may receive the following error message:
  An Internet Services for Windows (wininet) error occurred.
• When you use Microsoft Office Word 2003 or Microsoft Office Excel 2003 to edit a document on a SharePoint document library, and then try to save your changes, the changes may not save to the same file that you opened, and the Save As dialog box may not appear.
• When you try to use FrontPage to open a Web site, the Connecting to Web server dialog box opens, but FrontPage may stop responding.
• When you try to use any Office program to open a document on a SharePoint Services document library, you may receive the following error message:
  Microsoft Visual Basic
  Run-time error '1177'
  The document name or path is not valid.
  Try one or more of the following:

  • check the path to make sure it was typed correctly
  • On the File menu, click Open. Search for the file using this dialog box
• When you try to add a network place, you may receive the following error message:
  The folder you entered does not appear to be valid
• When you try to add several pictures to a picture library, the Microsoft Office Picture Manager may not open, and you may not be able upload pictures.
• When you try to open a Web site in FrontPage, you may receive the following error message:
  The following folder Folder_Path isn't accessible. The folder may be located in an unavailable location, protected with a password, or the filename contains a / or a \.
• In Word, when you try to use File Open to open a document that is located on a network share, you are prompted with a Sign In dialog box. However, your pointer may remain as a Busy icon and not a Normal Select icon. As a result, you cannot type your credentials.