[Gllug] Mac OS9 LAN http access

[John Hearns]

On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Garry Heaton wrote:

> I have an old PowerMac 7100/66 running OS9 which I've just connected to my
> router with an AAUI-15/10baseT adapter with a view to checking web pages
> hosted on a Linux/Apache server also connected to the LAN. IPs are:
> 
> I can't understand why the Mac can access the internet via the LAN/router
> but can't connect to HTTP services running on the LAN without extra
> components since I'm not attempting to share any filesystems.
> 
I've got a similar setup, and it works for me,
though I did have to alter the firewalling rules on the Linux box.
Some things to check:

a) is your Mac set to use an HTTP proxy?
b) are there some  tight firewalling rules on the Debian box?




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