I have installed the IIS Manager on a desktop machine on the same LAN as the
Windows 2003 server. I have opened it through Control Panel > Admin Tools
as it seems that it doesn't work the same form Computer Management, even
though it appears there.

However it cannot connect to the server. I can find it when I 'browse', and
I am using the right username and password, but it says:

Error: Unable to connect to this computer.

Is there some setting on the server that needs to be enabled, or is it the
firewall or something?

ss.

Re: IIS 6.0 Manager for Windows XP - can't connect by Synapse

Synapse
Wed May 03 08:37:58 CDT 2006

"Synapse Syndrome" <synapse@NOSPAMgomez404.elitemail.org> wrote in message
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>I have installed the IIS Manager on a desktop machine on the same LAN as
>the Windows 2003 server. I have opened it through Control Panel > Admin
>Tools as it seems that it doesn't work the same form Computer Management,
>even though it appears there.
>
> However it cannot connect to the server. I can find it when I 'browse',
> and I am using the right username and password, but it says:
>
> Error: Unable to connect to this computer.
>
> Is there some setting on the server that needs to be enabled, or is it the
> firewall or something?


Does nobody an answer to this?

My server has two NICs, one for the web including IIS (with a gateway
address) and the other for LAN with NetBIOS and DNS registration enabled and
no gateway.

As IIS is working externally through the NIC that has nothing to do with the
LAN, do you think that this might be the reason I can't connect to the IIS
Manager on the XP Pro desktop machine to IIS on the server?

ss.