I have a Windows Vista laptop running IIS7 for its localhost. On this machine, I can successfully navigate to:
- "http://localhost"
- "http://127.0.0.1"
- "http://mycpuname"
However, I cannot access this localhost website from another computer on the same network. Ideally I would be able to visit "http://mycpuname" (so that I can hard-code a connection), but at this point I might settle for the IP address of the machine (http://192.000.000.xyz)
I've seen similar questions asked here and elsewhere on the internet... but none of the posts seems to fix the issue for me.
Things I've tried: - adding exceptions to Windows Firewall to allow TCP ports 80 and 8080 - disabling Windows Firewall entirely - running the "netsh" commands in this post
Additionally, I am looking at the IP address on the Windows laptop by running "ipconfig" from the command prompt. Oddly enough, trying to access "http://192.000.000.xyz" from the Windows laptop doesn't seem to work...
I have also tried restarting IIS and restarting my machine.
Help?