I'm working on a website whose main purpose is to be accessed from mobile phones. On my laptop I've installed XAMPP and work with it for development. If I want to check one of the websites from my Android Smartphone, so it connects through my home or work wireless network, which gave my laptop an internal IP.
I do not always have that network though, so my smartphone would need to find my laptop without that. Do I need to turn my laptop into an access point, so my smartphone can find and connect over a SSID or is there a different way?
You can use an application like localtunnel to tunnel your laptop's webserver over the Internet.
You can connect your laptop and smartphone to the same network: by
USB/Bluetooth/Wifi tethering, or by a shared external network.
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With my personnal PC, I used to connect to my WORK PC that was in the workplace building. With my personnal PC, I had to connect to CISCO VPN first, then connect to my work PC.
But we were recently instructed to get the WORK PC from the workplace and install it at home. My work PC is always connected to CISCO VPN in order to work properly.
What I would like to do now, is to use my personnal PC like I used to do to connect to my work PC that is ALSO in my home right now.
Is it possible? Should I also connect my personnal PC to the VPN to remotely connect to my work PC that is ITSELF always on VPN? I'm completely lost
I tried the following:
Connected to my vpn on my personnal PC to WORK PC using microsoft remote desktop - did not work
Connected to my personnal PC without any VPN to my WORK pc that is on vpn - did not work
My recommendation would be to connect as you did before - connect to Cisco VPN in order to connect your personal PC to your work PC. The connection will be encrypted and more secure. It's overkill for two devices on your own home (internal) network, but certainly the secure option.
I'm having a fritzbox with vpn and fritznas set up. From inside the local network as expected there is no problem, I can access the user interface as well as mounting the samba share.
But now I'm trying this from another network (but connected to the firtzbox via the built in vpn service) and I've got a situation which is very weird.
From my laptop I can connect via vpn and bring the user interface up, but I cannot login in the user interface (with the normal user interface password) neither can I mount my samba share.
But I'm sure that the vpn connection is set up properly since ssh to machines connected to the remote fritzbox works.
And now I've tried this too from my smartphone (connecting via vpn, log into the user interface and access the samba share) and there everything is quite fine.
Any suggestions what might cause these problems on the laptop (I'd say that something in the fritzbox is set up falsely but since it works on the smartphone, it has to be something on my laptop I think)? (I have tried everything I can think of but nothing works)
With best regards and thanks in advance
PS: My OS is Arch Linux
EDIT: It gets even stranger: If I change my setup from
Laptop -> WLAN -> VPN to
Laptop -> Hotspot of my Smartphone -> VPN it works again (but slow of course since now it is over the mobilenet of the smartphone)
I am running XAMPP on my windows 10. and installed WordPress site. All working fine on my pc and other PCs in my network.
I just changed my router.
My site is working on my PC but not working on other PCs.
When i connect with WiFi, its working. If i connect with cat5 wire, its not working.
Check your IP-Addresses and network configuration (e.g.: Gateway). Port Forwarding may also be needed on the new router.
For a better answer I'd need more details. For example, can you ping the other PCs on the network? Are you able to connect to the internet?
You should also check your firewall.
I am using a plug and play dongle for internet connection. My WP8 emulator is not working ...I tried all the steps mentioned here and on various other forums.. but it was of no help...I am using a 64 bit machine and Hyper-V is on.What should I do?
This is a problem which even Microsoft is unable to answer as of date.
Windows Phone 8 Emulator has a separate IP of its own, different from the IP of the host computer. It needs a dedicated internet connection for itself.
When you are connecting the dongle, you are feeding internet only to the host system and not to the emulator.
One way to get internet on emulator is to use WLAN connection on the system. You can create a WiFi hotspot and that will provide internet to emulator.
In case, you only have dongle as an option, then you have to do tethering with another system.
Create a peer-to-peer network using a LAN cable with another nearby system and change the IPV4 of all available virtual switch adapters of both the systems to dynamic. (no static IP)
Then use dongle to share internet for both the systems. If the other system successfully gets the internet, be sure that the emulator will also get the internet.
You can google out how to create a peer-to-peer connection.
Happy coding :)
I have installed wamp server in a local area network.
All the PCs are able to access the Apache default page when type http://server_pc_ipaddress,
but one pc can't access it. Unfortunately it's my boss laptop :D.
It is always connected to the network and having the same class of ip, subnet and the default gateway etc. I can ping successfully this laptop and vice versa. What could be the problem preventing this computer from accessing the server?
Try turning the firewall off on both devices for a moment and see if it works, if it does its being blocked and you need to allow whatever ports it is blocking.