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

Frank Hunt linux at frankhunt.com
Tue Jun 19 11:06:47 UTC 2007


Anything in the apache access or error log?
Did it ever work?
What browser?  Tried Firefox?
etc

Ted Kubaska wrote:
> 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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frank hunt
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