Cannot connect to web service on my local machine...

HI,

I am sure there is something minor I am missing but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to connect to a web service that I have created in my local iis.

1. I have created a basic web service and it is running under iis. I can connect to it no problem if I create a console application and add a web referenec.
2. I have created a Windows mobile pocket pc project and cannot connect to the web service.
3. I can connect to the internet through the device emulator.
4. I cannot browse to the web service or anything else on my local machine. To browse to the web service I am trying to use http://192.168.15.100/MyWebService/Service.asmx

I am solutely loosing my mind here....I have seen a other posts with the same problem but no solution has corrected the issue.

Also My lacal machine is connect to a workgroup....do I need to join and if so, how do I do that

Anyone have any idea

CES

Please see if this helps http://blogs.msdn.com/mohitgog/archive/2006/04/20/579641.aspx.

-Thanks,

Mohit

Thank you for the reply.

After restarting my PC I was able to get it going with some issues. Do you need to disable/enable the network card after you turn off the firewall or restart the computer This is my best guess as to why it wouldn't work and now it works a bit.

Anyhow, there seems to be a problem when adding the web reference...when I go to add a reference the "Add Web Reference" dialog will search for a very very very long time before gviing me a "Unable to connect to remote server" error message. Does this symptym sound like anything familiar....I even get the same response from typing http://192.168.15.100:8608/WebService/Service.asmx into the address bar of IE on my desktop computer. I have also tried to add the service to a virtual directory under the Default Website in IIS 5. My OS is XP Pro.

I have a pentium processor 2.4 GHz with 1.5 GB of DDR 400 RAM and during this time I have half or more of the RAM available....is a virus possible

Any suggestions would be very much appreciated.

CES

Please make sure you have not enabled NE2000 card and cradled at the same time.

-Thanks,

Mohit

The device is connected and cradled. As for the NE2000 card, I have not changed any default settings on the emulator.

The problem seems to not be exclusively with the emulator itself because as I mentioned, I get the same problem when trying to browse to the web service through IE on my desktop as well.

Any idea what could cause this sort of intermitant problem where at one point it will connect and then it will not and yet at another point it will connect but it will take a very very long time to do so

I am being clear enough

Really stuck here.

Sorry for all the posts...

At the risk of going down the wrong path, it appears as though the IP address could be where the problem is. I can access the web service with seemingly no problem through IE on my desktop computer using the url http://localhost:8608/WebService/Service.asmx but when I try to acces the service with the IP(changing "localhost" to 192.168.15.100), that is where the issue sems to come up...

Does that help at all

Thanks

Am I missing something here

I have tried two other machines and they are able to browse to the web service using localhost(http://localhost:8608/WebService/Service.asmx) but non of them are able to browse to the service using the ip address...Sounds like I am missing something basic but I have no idea what the problem is..

I have even just created a new web service with the Hello World and get the same results....something tells me that I am going to have egg on my face after this but I spent all afternoon looking into this and I am really stuck here.

Can you offer any ideas

Hi thanks for the reply.

Yes the ip address is correct...it is just the ip address of my local machine (for testing) and it is dynamic but this is the current ip address.

As I have mentioned before, if I use localhost in place of the ip address and browse to the service with IE it works.

If I use the ip address and try to browse to IE, it just says waiting for http://192.168.15.100/WebService/Service.asmx in the status bar and never gets there.

Just to reiterate, I am using:

- IIS 5.1

- Windows XP Professional

- .NET Framework 2.0

- Internet Exporer 7

Any other suggestions

Thanks,

CES

I just tested with the ip address and if I let the browser try to connect for a few MINUTES, it will eventually connect...obviously that are far too long...

I also checked it using the loopback address 127.0.0.1 and this seems to work at a good speed.

Does that give anyone any ideas what might be wrong

There is nothing running on the machine when I tested this.

Thanks for another reply but I am afraid that I have set set a proxy configuration. It is just the default settings.

Any other suggestions