IIS problem on Intranet

I want to set up a website that everyone in our company can see internally. I have IIS running on one of our new machines and SQL database installed and ODBC all done.

I have created a new site on this machine and given it an unused IP address within the range of all the other fixed IP's in our office, i.e. 10.0.55.*

However nothing works when I type the IP into a bowser

Any ideas? DOes this HAVE to reside on a server?

Can I make the site on my 127.0.0.1 visible across the network?

finally noticed that svchost is listening on port 80 (via netstat -ano), should this not be IIS?

Has the website been "started"? And is there a firewall blocking port 80 on the server?

Yes, you can run it on your 127 machine, but everyone else will still have to put in the IP, so it's the same thing. I would recommend getting the server working, I had a job where the timeclock program ran on my machine, so if I rebooted I would hear yells seconds later down the hall.

the machine in question will never be rebooted so there will not be an issue.

There is no firewall on the machine just a watchguard one for net access.

the iis is started fine.

what is the IP they will have to use? the ip address i assign to the 'web site' in IIS? IF I do that it will not be unassigned IP's and it may not show as 127.0.0.1

The website shouldnt be assigned an IP, the machine it is running on will. 127.0.0.1 can't be used, because that is the local ip on every machine.

Try accessing it by computername. If the computer is named "webserver", then "http://webserver/" should give you something. Otherwise, you'll have to use whatever IP that the machine has.

i have tried that with no result so far....

the only things I get when I try is sometimes get the shared folders on the machine but no website

First, open a web browser on the IIS computer to http://localhost or http://127.0.0.1 Does the website work as expected? If no, fix it here before moving on to any other computers.

Make sure your IIS is set to all unassigned IP's unless you have reason to do otherwise.

From another machine on the same LAN segment you should then be able to open a browser to http://10.0.55.x If that doesn't work, then you probably do have some firewall blocking access to port 80 on the IIS machine.

the machine in question is a windows server 2003 machine which was to be a new server but had not time to set it up and is now simply a file server. DOes this have a firewall on?

I don't know but your should be able to look at the server and see. I don't have 2003, but I think ISA or some firewall is a standard feature.