I've answered a few questions from members that
probably anyone could've handled. So I hope
readers will tolerate a dumb one from little ol' me.
How do you view a Web page on your Vista's
IIS at a *private* Internet address on another
computer in the workgroup? In other words,
I have an Intranet (not Internet) with two
hosts.
Let's say I've set up the Ethernet network
card on my Vista Home Premium edition to
to respond to address 192.168.0.8. And
the computer is in workgroup=MYGROUP.
Another computer, this one with at a
non-conflicting IPA (say, 192.168.0.10)
and also in workgroup=MYGROUP.
You've got a wire connection between
the two machines that goes through
a hub that can reverse the wires, so
that what goes out on one one wire
comes in on the other computer
on the opposite wire, and vice-
versa.
You've got file-sharing working
which demonstrates that each
computer knows about the other. You can
copy files in your Vista Users folders
back and forth.
Now, on one computer which has IIS
installed, you've got an ASP.Net web page
in your inetpub/wwwroot called default.aspx
and you want to view it from the *other* computer.
You set up a virtual directory for it on the source computer
called MyBigFatTestPage and verify
that you can view from the browser
on the source computer at
http://localhost/MyBigFatTestPage/default.aspx
(You don't really need the "default.aspx" because
you've got your IIS set to use this page
name as a default.)
You go to the other computer and type
http://192.168.0.10/MyBigFatTestPage/default.aspx
and after a long delay get a time-out..."Internet
Exlorer cannot display the Web page." Not
even a HTTP 402 error, "Access not authorized."
I'm using Fiddler to monitor the HTTP channel,
and I know that there is no response from the
other computer.
So what the heck am I doing wrong here?
