XP Pro, SP 2 and IIS :(

Hi,

This is my first post and I'm a bit of a novice to all of this.

I have a Dell PC running XP Pro and have installed SP 2. I've got IIS 5.1 running so that I can create my own site and test ASP stuff locally.

I can access my site locally using the loopback address and the 192.168.x.x assinged by our router. I have opened up port 6060 on the router to match my IP address. My housemate, has taken port 80 for his desktop.

The problem is that I am unable to access my site via the external IP address assigned to our router by our ISP. So I cannot do 82.1.xxx.xxx:6060/dir1/page.asp The connection just times out trying to connect. dir1 is a directory under wwwroot. Also, .htm and .html files don't work, indicating that this is not an issue of ASP running on my IIS server.

I have configured the SP 2 firewall to accept requests to port 6060 as exception. I chose TCP instead of UDP.

The guest account on my machine is also enabled.

Anybody with any ideas or a very quickfire checklist for me to go through would be of much help. If I can get this working, it will help me a great deal for my university project.

Many thanks,
N.

Sounds to me like the port forwarding in your router isn't right.