Suddenly can"t reach my IIS locahost server from another machine...

On a private network I have a machine (call it machine1) running WinXP
SP2 with IIS up and running - I have some pages that I host there for
other developers on my team - I have been using this setup without any
problems for about 2 years. As of this morning I am no longer able to
reach my pages on machine1 from another machine (machine2) on the same
network. I have verified that machine2 can ping machine1. Also, both
machine1 & 2 can reach the internet.

The only thing of question that I did was run Spybot - Search &
Destroy 1.4. After noticing the problems described above, I rolled
back all the changes that were made by "Spybot - Search & Destroy" and
re-booted mahine1 to no avail.

Can anyone make suggestions as to troubleshooting this problem...

Thanks

celoftis

Re: Suddenly can"t reach my IIS locahost server from another machine...

"hzgt9b" wrote in message
news:27917527-8b67-418f-acea-a30de9164b0f@s13g2000prd.google groups.com...
> On a private network I have a machine (call it machine1) running WinXP
> SP2 with IIS up and running - I have some pages that I host there for
> other developers on my team - I have been using this setup without any
> problems for about 2 years. As of this morning I am no longer able to
> reach my pages on machine1 from another machine (machine2) on the same
> network. I have verified that machine2 can ping machine1. Also, both
> machine1 & 2 can reach the internet.
>
> The only thing of question that I did was run Spybot - Search &
> Destroy 1.4. After noticing the problems described above, I rolled
> back all the changes that were made by "Spybot - Search & Destroy" and
> re-booted mahine1 to no avail.
>
> Can anyone make suggestions as to troubleshooting this problem...
>

Can you access the website using a browser running on machine1?
IOW, are you sure the web site is actually up?

Have machine1 firewall settings changed causing it to block http connections
to it?

Have you got something else which is receiving connections running on the XP
box (XP limits the number of incoming connections it supports)?


--
Anthony Jones - MVP ASP/ASP.NET

Re: Suddenly can"t reach my IIS locahost server from another

On Jan 22, 5:08 pm, "Anthony Jones" wrote:
> "hzgt9b" wrote in message
>
> news:27917527-8b67-418f-acea-a30de9164b0f@s13g2000prd.google groups.com...
>
> > On a private network I have a machine (call it machine1) running WinXP
> > SP2 with IIS up and running - I have some pages that I host there for
> > other developers on my team - I have been using this setup without any
> > problems for about 2 years. As of this morning I am no longer able to
> > reach my pages on machine1 from another machine (machine2) on the same
> > network. I have verified that machine2 can ping machine1. Also, both
> > machine1 & 2 can reach the internet.
>
> > The only thing of question that I did was run Spybot - Search &
> > Destroy 1.4. After noticing the problems described above, I rolled
> > back all the changes that were made by "Spybot - Search & Destroy" and
> > re-booted mahine1 to no avail.
>
> > Can anyone make suggestions as to troubleshooting this problem...
>
> Can you access the website using a browser running on machine1?
> IOW, are you sure the web site is actually up?
>
> Have machine1 firewall settings changed causing it to block http connections
> to it?
>
> Have you got something else which is receiving connections running on the XP
> box (XP limits the number of incoming connections it supports)?
>
> --
> Anthony Jones - MVP ASP/ASP.NET

Anthony thanks for the quick reply - I was able to get this working
again be changing my IIS settings... evidently "Spybot - Search and
destroy" changed my Windows Firewall settings such that the firewall
was preventing IIS from serving HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, etc. requests to
users. Here's the page that helped me out:
http://kbalertz.com/884488/receive-cannot-error-message-acce ss-hosted-Windows-computer.aspx