I have IIS running on a windows 7 ultimate machine (development workstation). I can access the website locally with no issues, but when I try to access the site from the iPhone it just gives one of two errors:
Cannot Open Page
Safari cannot open the page because the server stopped responding
or
Cannot Open Page
Safari cannot open the page because the server cannot be found
Can't quite figure out what triggers one message vs the other, but both machines (computer and iphone) are on the same wireless network and have the same subnet mask. On the laptop, the network connection is defined as a "home network" and I've turned on all the sharing options I could find.
What other troubleshooting steps can I try?
additional info:
- just wanted to include that I know that iphones don't support netbios so as such wouldn't be able to resolve the machine name. I am trying to access the machine by IP ...
- I installed a ping app on the iphone and I'm able to ping the workstation with 0% packet loss
solution was enabling the built-in firewall rule for http traffice on home/work networks :-)