ahhh! Great! Thanks for the input re: the hosts file. I will have to dig into that!
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Caldarale, Charles R < chuck.caldar...@unisys.com> wrote: > > From: bill turner [mailto:worldwidewi...@gmail.com] > > Subject: Re: newbie: accessing tomcat admin page from another machine > > > > Well, the administrator, which I thought was quite obvious, is the > > console one sees when you install tomcat, start it up and type in > > localhost:8080. > > That's not the administrator, that's the default Tomcat home page (webapp). > Older versions of Tomcat did include an administrator app, 6.0.x does not. > Also, most installations replace the default Tomcat webapp with their own > site-specific webapp - which you might have called "administrator". > > > > 1) Is the name "hal9000" known via DNS to the other machines? > > > > No. I didn't think of that. :-( I don't have a DNS server running. > > This is a home network. It just never occurred to me. > > On XP, you can configure host names in: > C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts > in lieu of a DNS box. > > > > 3) Try using the IP address of the target machine. > > > > This just ended up with a timeout. > > Likely a firewall blocking on one or both of the machines blocking the > connection. > > - Chuck > > > THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE PROPRIETARY > MATERIAL and is thus for use only by the intended recipient. If you received > this in error, please contact the sender and delete the e-mail and its > attachments from all computers. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >
