How does one allow access to networked PCs to see your “localhost” in IIS7 - Windows 7

Question

I have a computer setup with a localhost in IIS, and the computer is visible on an internal network. In Windows XP IIS6, I could just type http://<computername>/ and I would see that user's localhost. In windows 7 IIS7 it seems this is disabled by default. How do I enable it?

Answer 1

I believe you want to use the Control Panel Applet for Windows Firewall.

Then click on "inbound rules" and scroll to find the "World Wide Web Services (HTTP Traffic-in)" rule.

Enable it.

done.