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IIS won't serve outside Workstation

IIS won't serve outside Workstation
Wed, 2 Aug 2006 23:57:56 +0000
How do I configure IIS so that it can serve pages even outside our local
workgroup? I know for a fact that if your web server named
"myWebServer" is a member of a workgroup named
"ourWorkGroup" and another computer named "myWorkstation1"
is also a member of "ourWorkGroup", published pages can be requested
by "myWorkstation1" by using
http://myWebServer/<virtualdirectory>. Now, we also have a domain
controlled network (lets call this "theirDomain") that is physically,
part of the same local area network. I can be sure of this because I can browse
network shares from "ourWorkGroup", say, a share from
"myWorkstation1" by using this UNC \\myWorkstation1\SharedFolder from
a computer in "theirDomain" However, when requesting pages from
"myWebServer"  using http://myWebServer/<virtualdirectory>, IE
displays a "Page cannot be found" error page.  Is there something I'm
missing?
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Re: IIS won't serve outside Workstation
Thu, 3 Aug 2006 12:00:58 +0000
There's nothing you can do on IIS for this, it's a networking issue, probably
because the domain can't resolve the name of "myWebServer".  Does it
work if you use the IP address of myWebServer in the URL?
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Re: IIS won't serve outside Workstation
Thu, 3 Aug 2006 15:42:50 +0000
Also check firewalls and other securoty software on your network.

Jeff
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Re: IIS won't serve outside Workstation
Thu, 3 Aug 2006 22:51:03 +0000
Thanks for replying guys. 

I've tried that before. Instead of using http://myWebServer, I tried to use
something like http://192.168.77.3 but still it can't load the page.

The ip of the machine where I'm trying to access the page is 199.99.99.5. My
colleague suggested that I should make this machine (with ip 199.99.99.5) a
"member" of  the group of myWebServer by supplying it with another ip
similar to that of myWebServer.

Here's what I did (with the machine with ip 199.99.99.5):

1. Right click My Network Places, select Properties

2. Right click Local Area Connection, select Properties

3. In the window Local area Connection Properties, I selected Internet Protocol
(TCP/IP) & clicked Properties

4. In the window Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) Properties, I clicked Advanced.

5. Under IP addresses, I added 192.168.77.200

4. Under Default gateways, I added 192.168.77.1 (same gateway with myWebServer)

After doing above steps, I tried browing http://myWebServer, still nothing.

But when I tried http://192.168.77.3, It worked!

I should be happy that it worked but I'm having doubts. Is this really the case?
I mean, is there any more elegant solution than this?

Thanks for taking time reading this...
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Re: IIS won't serve outside Workstation
Fri, 4 Aug 2006 03:38:19 +0000
It's all basic networking.  Address translation, firewalls, private address
space, logical networks based upon ranges and netmasks...

None of it is IIS.

Jeff
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