[PLUG] can access an intranet site with Linux but not with Windows?

Ted Kubaska tkubaska at charter.net
Tue Jun 19 07:00:02 UTC 2007


You now it's not the Windows firewall ... I turned off FireStarter on
Linux and made the connection. Now turning off FireStarter is not what I
want to do, but this tells me that FireStarter is not configured
correctly, I think.  But I wonder why another Linux box has no trouble?
 -ted

On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 22:54 -0700, Ted Kubaska wrote:
> Here's a curious Linux/Windows thing that is troubling me. I posted a
> similar question on the .Net list, but discussions that have Linux in
> them often remain quiet there.
> 
> I can access a site with Linux and not with Windows. Is there something
> in my Windows configuration that's preventing this? I don't know where
> to look.  (I temporarily turned off my Windows firewall and see the same
> problem.)
> 
> One of the machines in my local network is a Linux box. On that machine
> I have apache that serves up a site. I can access this site from that
> same Linux box. And I can access it from another Linux box on my local
> network. I put http://192.168.1.100/phpinfo.php in my browser, and see
> what I expect.
> 
> However, if I am on a Windows XP box on my local network and do the
> same (that is access from Windows the site on my local Linux box), I get
> "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage." I see the
> same problem with Firefox.
> 
> Does anyone know what there is in Windows that is preventing this
> access?
> -ted
> 
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