I hate to ask but I wonder if anyone can offer any networking advice?
I recently set-up hiawatha in Puppy 528 with a view to using one of my machines to host web-pages on my local wireless network. I am fairly sure the configuration of hiawatha is set correctly. But do I need to do anything else to puppy in order to make it a local web server?
My network consists of a wireless router which has a maximum of four systems connected to it via wireless networking. Each system will see the WAN (Internet) and each system will "ping" each other successfully at the local level.
The puppy machine running hiawatha will let me view my test page using localhost but when I fire up a second machine running puppy on the network to view the test page through a browser it says it will not connect. I have the firewalls switched-off on both systems for testing.
I have searched the internet for help on this one but I am still not sure where my problem is. Since the systems will ping each other this suggests they "see" each other at some basic level.
It has been suggested by someone local to me that I am wasting my time and that a basic broad-band home router is not capable of permitting local systems to talk to each other but I am not entirely convinced
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Is it possible that I have to change any settings in the router itself? The manual for the router says the firewall is only between the WAN and LAN but does not give any clues about using the router for a LAN/Intranet.
Look forward to hearing any thoughts on this.
Regards,
Des (pupnovice)