Web server does not appear to work

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Basic machine info. P4, 2.4 Ghz, 512 RAM, Windows XP home ed.

Been using Xlobby from the main computer for awhile and it has been working great. I decided to setup my PDA to access Xlobby and can not get it to work. I then decided to just try local access on the main computer by bringing up IE on the machine that has Xlobby running and has ther server started. I then use IE to access running Xlobby by doing
http://192.168.1.100:1234
The static IP of the computer is of course http://192.168.1.100
and the Xlobby server port is set to 1234.
IE returns after a period of time
"The page you are looking for is currently unavailable"
I can go to a DOS command prompt and do a ping of 192.168.1.100 and it does ping.
I do have have a Linksys router that the computer is hooked to but the computer is talking to its own address so I would think that it would not have to go to the router.
I would think that this would be a valid way to test the connection since it would be just a local connection. Does anyone have any suggestions of what I may be overlooking or what to look at to get it to work ?

Thanks,
Tom

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Guess I should have added that I did have Zonealarm running and it did not show any inbound traffic. I even unloaded Zonealarm and Nortons antivirus without any luck.
I even enabled Client for Mircosoft Networls, File and Printer Sharing, Qos Packet Scheduler, Network Monitor Driver, NwLink Netbios, NWlink IPX/SPX/NetBios to the already enabled Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) within the Local Area Connections Properties without any positive results.

Thanks, Tom

[edgley]

I just treid this on mine, and it worked.

try changing the port number

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Edgley, Thanks for trying it out. I figured it should work. I did try changing the ports and still could not get it to work. I made sure the firewall was disabled, the Norton antivirus was off and zonealarm was off. Its as if my computer does not respond or see incoming ports. I had RemoteAmp running on my computer with access by way of my HP Pda and it worked great until a month ago when the local cable company was messing with upgrades. I did not realize what they were doing at the time so I was trying to get my connection to work again by doing an upgrade of my Linksys router firmware and uninstalling Nortons internet firewall which had expired anyway. After a couple days of messing with things I got the connection to work but I think it was on the cable companies end and not my end. After that RemoteAmp did not work but that was okay since I was going to Xlobby instead. I did roll back the Linksys firmware and that did not fix anything so I'm stuck. I'm thinking uninstalling Nortons internet firewall did something to the computer but I have no idea where to start looking. Zonealarm shows no inbound traffic so I was thinking it was the router blocking it. If I can not gain local access by way of IE from the machine running Xlobby I am leaning now to something messed up with the computer. Does anyone know of any software that can check for loopback (ie send out on one port and receive on another) so I can try to narrow it down. Maybe if someone had this happen to them before they might know how to fix it or where to look.

Thanks,
Tom

[edgley]

In my experiance, that sound all to complicated.
try vnc to the box first, see if you can connect that way.
It nearly always turns out to be something simple.

try install xl on the other machine and then try connecting from the old server.

ps
if you are behind a router you dont always need a firewall on each machine.

[hjackson]

I believe the problem is that you are using your LAN IP address, not your WAN IP address. To get your WAN IP address, go here: http://www.whatismyip.com/

hjackson

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Actually the problem is that I'm using Nortons Antivirus. After much playing with settings I discovered that if I turn off the worm protection on my Nortons Antivirus 2006 I can get Xlobby to work on the local machine running Xlobby by way of IE and I can also get my HP PDA to work as well. I did add Xlobby to the Nortons exceptions but that still does not work. It only appears to work if I turn off worm protection completely. It is strange that if I select disable Antivirus it apparently still does worm protection and will only stop if you go into the Nortons control panel and unclick the worm protection. At least it is working now. I may try to narrow down why Nortons thinks Xlobby is one of the worm signatures and which one by unchecking each worm signature box one at a time. That may be more trouble than it is worth. Hope that this may help someone else.

Later,
Tom