What distro are you using? Recent distros have set up some interesting firewall rules... If you are using RedHat 7.1, their default server install for some unknown reason rejects all SYN packets which are the start of a connection, and will cause Netscape to display the error you quoted (actually, RedHat only rejects incoming SYN packets to the lower 1024 "privileged" ports). You can check firewall rules on most distros using ipchains -L -n You can otherwise ping the server, right? If not, it might be a networking issue - make sure the client can see the server :) Good luck! On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, stith wrote:

i am trying to set up a server using apache. at this point i do not want it to be connected to the internet so i am trying to use a second computer to log on with. here is what i have set up:

1. server ip=192.168.1.1 ( i am using the ip and by-passing name resolution at this point). i can ping 192.168.1.1 from the server as well as localhost. i can also get the default html page up. the only changes i have made to http.conf is:

a. Listen *:80 b. ServerName 192.168.1.1 c. i added the following

<Directory "/var/www/html"> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory>

i can ping from server to client and client to server.

2. client when i try to log on to the server, i get 'netscapes network connection was refused by the server 192.168.1.1. the server may not be accepting connections or may be busy.'

any help would be appreciated

jim stith

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