Can't access IIS remotely
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Hi! I have have a problem of accessing the IIS http site remotely when establishing network with DSL router acting as DHCP. My configuration is as follows: - I have a router connected to the internet and acts as DCHP - I have my PC directly connected to the router through wired ethernet and obtain its IP address from the router - On the PC I bridged my wired ethernet connection with a wifi connection so that my laptop can join the network and access the internet - The laptop obtains its address also from the router through the PC bridge now the laptop can see the PC from the network places and can share files and transfere files with no problems, but when I try to browse an IIS website on the PC from the laptop it cannot reach it. The strange thing is that if I removed the bridge and established a wifi network using static IPs on both sides, the problem disappears and the site becomes accesable from the laptop, but once I bridge the connections back and the laptop join the network DHCPed by the router the site is not accessable again. Please if anyone have an idea how to configure the network so that I can access the IIS remotley with the above network configuration please tell me. Thanks in advance for your help M@@K
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Hi! I have have a problem of accessing the IIS http site remotely when establishing network with DSL router acting as DHCP. My configuration is as follows: - I have a router connected to the internet and acts as DCHP - I have my PC directly connected to the router through wired ethernet and obtain its IP address from the router - On the PC I bridged my wired ethernet connection with a wifi connection so that my laptop can join the network and access the internet - The laptop obtains its address also from the router through the PC bridge now the laptop can see the PC from the network places and can share files and transfere files with no problems, but when I try to browse an IIS website on the PC from the laptop it cannot reach it. The strange thing is that if I removed the bridge and established a wifi network using static IPs on both sides, the problem disappears and the site becomes accesable from the laptop, but once I bridge the connections back and the laptop join the network DHCPed by the router the site is not accessable again. Please if anyone have an idea how to configure the network so that I can access the IIS remotley with the above network configuration please tell me. Thanks in advance for your help M@@K
MAAK wrote:
On the PC I bridged my wired ethernet connection with a wifi connection
What do mean by this?? What did you use?? TOday's routers come with both wireless and wired connections, so why did you go through the PC to do this? RageInTheMachine9532 "...a pungent, ghastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome
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Hi! I have have a problem of accessing the IIS http site remotely when establishing network with DSL router acting as DHCP. My configuration is as follows: - I have a router connected to the internet and acts as DCHP - I have my PC directly connected to the router through wired ethernet and obtain its IP address from the router - On the PC I bridged my wired ethernet connection with a wifi connection so that my laptop can join the network and access the internet - The laptop obtains its address also from the router through the PC bridge now the laptop can see the PC from the network places and can share files and transfere files with no problems, but when I try to browse an IIS website on the PC from the laptop it cannot reach it. The strange thing is that if I removed the bridge and established a wifi network using static IPs on both sides, the problem disappears and the site becomes accesable from the laptop, but once I bridge the connections back and the laptop join the network DHCPed by the router the site is not accessable again. Please if anyone have an idea how to configure the network so that I can access the IIS remotley with the above network configuration please tell me. Thanks in advance for your help M@@K
MAAK wrote:
On the PC I bridged my wired ethernet connection with a wifi connection so that my laptop can join the network and access the internet - The laptop obtains its address also from the router through the PC bridge
Try to connect your laptop to the router, and test it whether is it working or not.
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MAAK wrote:
On the PC I bridged my wired ethernet connection with a wifi connection so that my laptop can join the network and access the internet - The laptop obtains its address also from the router through the PC bridge
Try to connect your laptop to the router, and test it whether is it working or not.
I would have tired this and saved me lots of trouble in connecting in the first place, but simply the router is too remote from me to make another wired connection or access it through wifi. Please note that I have no problem with connection and the laptop is joining the network and is seen as part of it, the remote IIS acess is the only problem
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MAAK wrote:
On the PC I bridged my wired ethernet connection with a wifi connection
What do mean by this?? What did you use?? TOday's routers come with both wireless and wired connections, so why did you go through the PC to do this? RageInTheMachine9532 "...a pungent, ghastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome
1. the WinXP has a nice feature called network bridge that can bridge two or more network adapters to brdige different networks together 2. i have no trouble in connection, i did say that the laptop joined the network 3. for your question, I didnt use the hard way except if there is no simpler way, so just assume that the route is a "yesterday router" with no wifi and single ethernet outlet, or simply it's too far to establish another wired or wireless connection again the network is working well in terms of file sharing and pinging, the only problem is that i cannot access the IIS remotely unless i establish a dedicated static IPs wifi connection Thanks
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I would have tired this and saved me lots of trouble in connecting in the first place, but simply the router is too remote from me to make another wired connection or access it through wifi. Please note that I have no problem with connection and the laptop is joining the network and is seen as part of it, the remote IIS acess is the only problem
When you change the connection, you have no more problem. In my opinion, your obstacle is might be came from the type of connection its self. I never use wifi connectivity but in my opinion, i suggest you to check the property of your connection and try to analys which feature that might cause the problem.
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When you change the connection, you have no more problem. In my opinion, your obstacle is might be came from the type of connection its self. I never use wifi connectivity but in my opinion, i suggest you to check the property of your connection and try to analys which feature that might cause the problem.
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well i already mentioned that connecting through wifi using static IPs on both sides without the bridge everything works well, it seems that there is a problem accessing just the http server when the router-network configuration
According to your first post[^] and
MAAK wrote:
connecting through wifi using static IPs on both sides without the bridge everything works well
. From here, i suspect that your computer might not be able to obtain an IP address from the router. When the client could not obtain an IP address from the router, you will see it ip address form like 169.254.x.x, a self assign ip address to the client itself when it could not find DHCP server. On more question, do you have DHCP relay agent or your router have a built in DHCP relay agent?
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According to your first post[^] and
MAAK wrote:
connecting through wifi using static IPs on both sides without the bridge everything works well
. From here, i suspect that your computer might not be able to obtain an IP address from the router. When the client could not obtain an IP address from the router, you will see it ip address form like 169.254.x.x, a self assign ip address to the client itself when it could not find DHCP server. On more question, do you have DHCP relay agent or your router have a built in DHCP relay agent?
I already mentioned (may be not explictly) that the netowrk is established normally, the machines has its valid IP (obeying the DHCP IP range and mask), pinging working very well, the Laptop can access the internet through the PC brdige, almost every thing from the point that machines are correctly connected is OK. It is just that the intranet sites are not accessable, I just doubt that it may be related to the gateway and DNS configuration. It's like the http request might be passed through them and never get to its destination. I also knew about existance of routing table in the system, I donno much about it, but it might be a way to solve the problem if it was the gateway. I just don't get any info about the routing table and if it related to the problem