cannot view another machines localhost on a peer to peer
Posted: 21. January 2011 16:54
hi all
have used xampp for a while now and have always had a pc and a laptop on a peer to peer network, both with xampp installed. previously i have always had no problems in viewing the other machine's localhost from the other machine's browser.
however, recently i have been able to view the pc's localhost from my laptop browser without problems but cannot view my laptop's localhost from my pc browser whether i use the name of the machine in the address bar or the ip address. both machines run windows 7 and are networking and file sharing no problem and far as i can see have identical sharing options set in network sharing.
i just wondered if this problem may be down to something ive missed in the windows network setting or if this may be down to something in the apache configuration that is stopping this?
any ideas?
thanks
have used xampp for a while now and have always had a pc and a laptop on a peer to peer network, both with xampp installed. previously i have always had no problems in viewing the other machine's localhost from the other machine's browser.
however, recently i have been able to view the pc's localhost from my laptop browser without problems but cannot view my laptop's localhost from my pc browser whether i use the name of the machine in the address bar or the ip address. both machines run windows 7 and are networking and file sharing no problem and far as i can see have identical sharing options set in network sharing.
i just wondered if this problem may be down to something ive missed in the windows network setting or if this may be down to something in the apache configuration that is stopping this?
any ideas?
thanks