How do I expose local IIS to other PCs on Windows 7?

Question

Hi,

I found the good article to do that http://msdnbangladesh.net/blogs/munnacs/archive/2009/06/13/exposing-your-local-iis-to-network-in-windows-xp.aspx ,but it's for Windows XP and I'm using Windows 7 which gets extremely complicated Firewall settings.

So here is my question, how can I achieve the same thing on Windows 7 as the article does on XP?

Thanks in advance,
yokyo

Edit
Sorry, I fixed the link :p

Answer 1

You can achieve the same thing in Windows 7 by doing the following:

1. Start -> Control Panel
2. System and Security
3. Under the Windows Firewall heading:
   • Allow a program through the Windows Firewall
4. Check the HTTP and HTTPS protocols in the list:
   • Secure World Wide Web Services (HTTPS)
   • Web Management Service (HTTP)
   • Word Wide Web Services (HTTP)