Hello, I'm trying to setup a connection to my website using IIS 7 Manager. When I enter the following information: Server name: pony4net.w01.Winhost.com Site name: pony4.net User name: pony4net Password: (ftp password) I get the following error messages: Could not connect to the specified computer Details: unable to connect to the remote server Please can you provide suggestions as regards this problem? Yours sincerely Andrew Florit
Make sure you are choosing connect to site and not connect to server. Do a telnet test in your computers DOS command and run this command. tracert pony4net.w01.Winhost.com and... telnet pony4net.w01.Winhost.com 8172
Thank you for your reply and suggestions. Yes, I'm connecting to a web site, and I double checked the password (the same I'm using for FTP) Here is the output of the commands (I must add that I'm issuing these command from a Windows XP virtual machine hosted within an Ubuntu host, and that the network seems to be working to the extente that I can browse my website, access the MS SQL Server from SQL Server Management Studio, send files via FTP, and run a demo application http://www.pony4.net/Pony.aspx. ) The reason why I'm trying to acccess IIS 7.0 is that this web service call: http://www.pony4.net/setGPSdata.svc/gps/3/11/12 fails with the following message: Server Error in '/' Application. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IIS specified authentication schemes 'Basic, Anonymous', but the binding only supports specification of exactly one authentication scheme. Valid authentication schemes are Digest, Negotiate, NTLM, Basic, or Anonymous. Change the IIS settings so that only a single authentication scheme is used. Can you please change the IIS 7 settings for my website to Anonymous? Thank you! C:\Documents and Settings\andrea>tracert pony4net.w01.Winhost.com Tracing route to pony4net.w01.Winhost.com [96.31.35.11] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 * * * Request timed out. 2 2 ms 1 ms <1 ms beta80asa [172.16.12.1] 3 2 ms 1 ms 1 ms 62-101-64-33.ip.fastwebnet.it [62.101.64.33] 4 5 ms 4 ms <1 ms 213-140-7-102.ip.fastwebnet.it [213.140.7.102] 5 4 ms 3 ms <1 ms 10.0.8.29 6 5 ms <1 ms <1 ms 10.0.0.121 7 9 ms 5 ms <1 ms 10.254.0.229 8 2 ms 4 ms 3 ms 10.254.9.181 9 7 ms <1 ms <1 ms 93-63-100-33.ip27.fastwebnet.it [93.63.100.33] 10 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 93-63-100-6.ip27.fastwebnet.it [93.63.100.6] 11 11 ms <1 ms <1 ms 89.96.200.225 12 3 ms 1 ms 5 ms 81-208-50-114.ip.fastwebnet.it [81.208.50.114] 13 9 ms 10 ms 13 ms te3-8.ccr01.str01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.1.237] 14 11 ms 7 ms 15 ms te0-0-0-2.ccr21.fra03.atlas.cogentco.com [130.117.0.73] 15 104 ms 111 ms 115 ms te0-2-0-6.ccr21.dca01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.31.237] 16 131 ms 142 ms 135 ms te0-3-0-7.ccr21.atl01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.42.194] 17 135 ms 134 ms 129 ms te0-3-0-2.ccr21.iah01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.25.118] 18 180 ms 168 ms 173 ms te0-0-0-3.ccr21.lax01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.44.238] 19 164 ms 177 ms 173 ms te3-8.ccr02.lax04.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.24.70] 20 182 ms 159 ms 173 ms audio-visual-services-group-inc.demarc.cogentco.com [38.104.82.234] 21 169 ms 168 ms 174 ms border1.po1-2g-bbnet1.ext1.lax.pnap.net [216.52.255.22] 22 172 ms 168 ms 168 ms hostcollective-6.border1.lax.ext1.pnap.net [216.52.253.94] 23 172 ms 176 ms 165 ms 96-31-33-196.hostcollective.com [96.31.33.196] 24 168 ms * 175 ms 96-31-33-227.hostcollective.com [96.31.33.227] 25 174 ms 173 ms 177 ms w01.Winhost.com [96.31.35.11] Trace complete. C:\Documents and Settings\andrea>telnet pony4net.w01.Winhost.com 8172 Connecting To pony4net.w01.Winhost.com...Could not open connection to the host, on port 8172: Connect failed C:\Documents and Settings\andrea>ping pony4net.w01.Winhost.com Pinging pony4net.w01.Winhost.com [96.31.35.11] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 96.31.35.11: bytes=32 time=172ms TTL=127 Reply from 96.31.35.11: bytes=32 time=175ms TTL=127 Reply from 96.31.35.11: bytes=32 time=173ms TTL=127 Reply from 96.31.35.11: bytes=32 time=166ms TTL=127 Ping statistics for 96.31.35.11: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 166ms, Maximum = 175ms, Average = 171ms Regards Andrew Florit
You'll need to speak with your network administrator and ensure that they have port 8172 open on your end. Otherwise you will not be able to connect to the web server using IIS 7 Manager.
