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When I try to access another computer across my home network through a browser by using its ip address I get routed to an iis7 page that says iis7 and then welcome in a bunch of languages. Any help?

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Are you trying to access the file system on the other computer or a web site on the other computer? – joeqwerty Jan 18 '11 at 15:18
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What do you expect to see? – shf301 Jan 18 '11 at 16:50

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That is expected behavior and everything is working correctly, if the site is not configured.

If you want to get rid of IIS, then you should go to control panel->programs and features-> operating system components (or something like that), find IIS (Internet Information Services) on the list and uncheck it. That was for Vista/7. On XP, it's on add/remove programs.

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Enable sharing on the machine you are trying to access. Then go to Start >> run and type \\ipaddress.
When you try it from the browser it goes to the webserver on the remote machine and will not list the file on the system.

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