I have it working. Once the firewall issue was resolved and I was pointed to the hosts file, all is beautiful. I just need to give my server a static ip address, I suppose, so that I do not have to regularly update my hosts file.
Propes, Barry L wrote: > > If you have IIS running on the box, it should be able to do it like you're > thinking. > > I've done that on my network at home. > > -----Original Message----- > From: bill turner [mailto:worldwidewi...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 9:21 AM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: Re: newbie: accessing tomcat admin page from another machine > > It does appear that there was a firewall issue. I had to open port 8080. I > can now use the ip address: http://192.168.0.198:8080/. > > I did think that windows would look for specific machine names in the > network first. And, that is what I would really like to do. It'd be a lot > easier than looking up the ip address every time I want to access tomcat > (or any application I have deployed on that machine). I have not been able > to find anything, thus far, about setting up my own dns. As all I really > want to do is deploy apps to that server and run them from the local > network, I am hoping there is an easy solution that I have yet to uncover. > > On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 8:40 AM, Caldarale, Charles R < > chuck.caldar...@unisys.com> wrote: > >> > From: bill.turner [mailto:worldwidewi...@gmail.com] >> > Subject: newbie: accessing tomcat admin page from another machine >> > >> > I thought I should be able to access the administrator from other >> > machines in my network using the latter but I cannot. >> >> What exactly do you mean by "administrator"? What exact URL are you >> using from the alternate machines? What exactly happens when you try? >> (In case you haven't figured it out yet, you need to be specific when >> you report >> problems.) >> >> > I can see various hal9000 shared directories from windows explorer, >> > including the tomcat home on hal9000. >> >> Not really relevant; that just shows Windows networking to be >> functional, which uses different mechanisms to resolve host names. >> >> > what I am doing wrong. >> >> 1) Is the name "hal9000" known via DNS to the other machines? >> >> 2) Try using the fully qualified DNS name of the target machine. >> >> 3) Try using the IP address of the target machine. >> >> 4) Insure that firewalls on hal9000 and the other machines are not >> blocking connections. >> >> - 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 >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > > > ----- Bill Turner http://www.changent.com Groovy/Grails Talk -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/newbie%3A-accessing-tomcat-admin-page-from-another-machine-tp28000834p28002751.html Sent from the Tomcat - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
