Problem connecting to server

[lugos]

Hello,

I have a Windows 2000 machine that I installed Cygwin on and am running Apache. I have files on the Windows 2000 machine that I want my Windows XP notebook to download. They are huge ISO files and my Windows 2000 machine only has a CD burner, which is why I can't burn them. I have them both connected to the Internet using a Netgear router. I guess the standard IP address for a machine attached to a router is 192.168.0.X, X being a number that the router assigns to the machine. So on my XP notebook I type http://192.168.0.X (X being a number) in the browser but the request times out. When I type http://localhost in the browser on the Windows 2000 machine, that works. I have also tried http://192.168.0.X:80 on the Windows XP machine, but that also times out. Is there something I am doing wrong? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
lugos

[mairving]

Not sure why you are running CYGWin since there are native Windows Apache versions.

Can you access the site via the ip address instead of localhost on the server?
Is there a firewall/Internet security product installed on the server?
Can you ping the server from the XP machine?
Can you access the server from the XP machine by backslash \\computerrname or \\IP Address?

[lugos]

I'm using Cygwin because I thought it was a simpler setup. I could be wrong.

It was my firewall/internet security program. I set it to allow http requests and it's working now. Thanks for the assistance.

lugos