Intranet & Internet cannot find IIS 5.1 server

From: lu (luann.bradford_at_jdll.com)
Date: 09/02/04 

Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 12:09:23 -0600

I have been working with this for a couple of days now with no success.
Please help!
I have installed IIS 5.1 on my Windows XP Pro workstation. My
workstation's IP address is a private IP. There is a DSL router that
forwards web server requests to port 80 of this workstation. These are
the results:

1) entering the localhost name or local IP address as the URL in a web
browser on the same workstation as the server brings up my web page

2) entering the server's localhost name or local IP address as the URL
in a web browser on a local workstation other than one running the
server generates the error "page cannot be displayed" and "cannot find
server or DNS error"

3) entering the domain name as the URL (www.domain.com) in a browser on
any workstation generates an error, either "connection refused" or "page
cannot be displayed"

IIS 5.1 is running with setup defaults. I've not changed any of the
settings. I have published a one page web named default.htm to
C:\Inetpub\wwwroot.

I'm trying to bring up a simple web site - do not want to pay an ISP to
host the site. Thought it would be straight forward to use IIS.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
LuAnn

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