own IP connection

[jac]

Hello,
I'm trying to view my home PC from another PC outside the local
network but Explorer times out with failure to connect.
I set the router firewall to forward to the PC with Internet
Information Server with access through port 80; I switched off Windows
Firewall to stop it preventing connections; I allowed anonymous
connections through IIS properties.

Is there something I'm missing? By using the reported IP address
from whatismyip, I have accessed the web page I set up on the IIS PC
from another PC on the local network- are there further authorisation
issues preventing an outside machine from connecting with the web
page?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated

Regards
John

 

[Jack \(MVP-Networking\).]

Hi
If you can view the IIS default site/page from another computer on the
Network, forwarded port (80 for http, 21 for ftp) toward the IP of the
computer with IIS, and see nothing from the outside then it is possible that
your ISP is blocking port 80.
As an Example, Verizon blocks port 80, and 21 on many of its Consumer DSL
accounts.
Jack (MVP-Networking).

 

[James Egan]

Is there something I'm missing? By using the reported IP address
from whatismyip, I have accessed the web page I set up on the IIS PC
from another PC on the local network

It's not clear what you're doing here. Trying to connect from an
internal machine using the router's external ip address shouldn't
work. Is that what you're trying to do to test it?


Jim.

 

[smlunatick]

Hello,
I'm trying to view my home PC from another PC outside the local
network but Explorer times out with failure to connect.
I set the router firewall to forward to the PC with Internet
Information Server with access through port 80; I switched off Windows
Firewall to stop it preventing connections; I allowed anonymous
connections through IIS properties.

Is there something I'm missing? By using the reported IP address
from whatismyip, I have accessed the web page I set up on the IIS PC
from another PC on the local network- are there further authorisation
issues preventing an outside machine from connecting with the web
page?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated

Regards
John

View what? Remote Desktop, web pages or something else?

Remote Desktop uses port 3389

Web pages uses port 80 and you need to have some type of web server
installed on the PC that you are accessing. IIS is an option in XP
Pro.