How to host a web service so other clients connected to same network can access

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I am hosting web service in a one machine using Visual studio 2008. I tried accessing the web service from a web site i created in the same solution and it was successfully called. Now i want to access the web service from a remote client.

I initially developed the web service to used in an android application. As you can see if I wan to access the web service I will have to host is with a static IP. So at least to test the application i want access the web service from the android mobile by connecting both server and android mobile to one wifi network. For the initial test I connected two laptops(one is server) to the wifi router. And i pingd the server from the client machine and it got successfully pingd. But when i try to access the web service with given port from the browser it wont allow me to connect. I tried http://localhost:26796/ by replacing the localhost with ip of the server and also i tried making a small web site(asp) and try to access it from the client via IP. Both did not work. I have searched here and on web could not find a proper answer. for,

how to host a webservice so other clients in the same network can access..?
can it be fulfilled with VSD server..?
is it compulsory to use iis..?
How should i achieve this..?

Posted 10-Jul-12 8:53am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 10-Jul-12 15:20pm

You are hosting... using Visual Studio?! No, you don't need Visual Studio to host anything...
--SA

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Trak4Net · Answer 1 · 2012-07-10T19:37:00

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If you are using IIS express included with visual studio you can't access it from another machine. You will need to publish it to IIS and make sure you configure your host bindings accordingly.

Posted 10-Jul-12 19:37pm

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