Accessing from outside a Web Server on a LAN Client.

[abrogard]

We have a small LAN, win2000.
On a client in that lan I have apache web server.
the outside world can see me fine when I dialup from my client machine.

When I do NOT dialup, but use the LAN connection to the world my web server cannot be seen. No one can see my pages.

The traffic, I'm told, needs to be forwarded from the LAN server or router or wherever it's stopping to my machine with it's local lan IP number (i.e. 192.168.0.3). This needs to be done by the sysop, the lan manager, whatever.

Unfortunately that's not me. That's a Chinese gentleman with no English (we're in mainland china) and without a lot of experience. It's very difficult to even make him understand the problem before we get to looking for an answer.

So it would be very good if someone could educate me and outline the steps required to forward traffic from outside to a particular client within a Lan.

regards, abrogard. (jepboro@yahoo.com)

 

[chuka]

I assume you have a router box between the client computer and the internet.
Router blocks all incomming traffic.

I'm not sure which router you have but the following has to be done:

1) Run ipconfig on the client computer to find out what is his the win2000 client computer IP address.

2) Log-in into the router, maybe browser is enough. there should be an option someplace called "virtual server"

3) In the above option on the traffic of port 80 and forward it to the ip address of the win200 computer.

Good luck

 

[abrogard]

part of the problem is i don't know anything about the network.. i think it is win98 all except me.

When my win2k machine is up my mate's win98 cannot see me. When I am NOT up he can see all the machines (only four of them) and browse every folder on the server!!
i suspect it is a peer to peer win98 network.

How it connects to the internet I don't know... but i know if is faster than 56k modem. We get about 100k download speed. What's that? A dedicated line?

that's my IP 192.168.0.3 - and the gateway is 192.168.0.1 - ipconfig tells me that much.

I'll try and tell the lan manager he must forward all traffic on port 80 (his machine) to my machine on 192.168.0.3

How come http pages come to my machine already? And email? And ICQ? And IRC?