Accessing localhost on IIS7 from another computer on the network

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I recently upgraded computers to Windows 7 Professional and am running IIS7. When I'm on my computer I can easily access localhost through my web browser but when I try from another computer on my network (replacing localhost with my computer name) it doesn't work. I also tried using "computername.domain.com" and still no luck. I can access other computers running Windows XP and IIS 5 but I'm having no luck accessing my own from another computer. I checked and my IIS7 has anonymous users enabled. Am I missing any other setting? Is this an IIS7 thing or am I missing a setting?

Thanks in advance!

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As @Johnh said it is most likely your firewall.

Open up port 80 on your firewall or whatever port you are hosting the local site on should it be a nonstandard port.

+1 for testing with telnet. Will give you a quick and definit answer on if the Web Server has the proper port open.

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Let other computer view the localhost over a network

You have to edit /etc/hosts on the other mac and add a line like this:

192.168.x.x example.local.net

192.168.x.x it's you LAN ip. You can retrieve it by using ifconfig command in the Terminal.

System process (PID 4) constantly accessing the hard disk

This is an older question, but I had this issue, and for me it was SuperFetch. I tried everything I could find on PID 4 excessive hard drive usage, and some of it helped. A RAM upgrade from 4GB to 8GB only made the issue more obvious - RAM usage was low, no paging, but yet the hard drive was lit up for ~10 minutes after my laptop booted.

Long story short, there's a registry setting that controls what level of SuperFetch is appropriate. You can see below the EnableSuperfetch value is now set to 1, which seems to be "prefetch all executables and libraries". The default is a 3, which seems to mean "prefetch all executables, libraries, and documents". I have many documents, so I think this was taking way too long. Every document opened is another one that SuperFetch has to "analyze" to see how you're using it.

The registry key/value in question is: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters\EnableSuperfetch

So far the only downside is that my outlook folders take a few extra seconds to open, and some commonly used documents like MS Project files take longer. But those delays pale in comparison to the disk thrash I was getting before!

SuperFetch Registry Key

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