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Asked: 2026-06-01T14:43:45+00:00

I am writing a WCF webservice. I need to access the service from another

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I am writing a WCF webservice. I need to access the service from another ( linux ) machine.

On my PC, I can access the url via ‘localhost’ just fine, however accessing it from another machine ( replacing localhost with the machine’s name ) does not work.

I am relatively new to WCF and my guess is I need to configure it to allow requests from other machines, but I do not know how to do this.

Here is the output from netstat if it helps. Thanks!

C:\Users\bb\Desktop>netstat -na | findstr 57566

TCP 127.0.0.1:57566 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING

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  1. Editorial Team

    How are you hosting your service? IIS or the built-in web server from Visual Studio? If it’s the Visual Studio (“Cassini”) web server, you cannot access it from other machines.

    See this Stack Exchange question, which is similar: https://serverfault.com/questions/82899/can-i-access-cassini-from-a-remote-machine

    Microsoft wants you to deploy your application to IIS for remote connections. Cassini (the Visual Studio web server) is purely for development purposes.

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