I just got IIS7 set up on a Windows Server 2008 R2 machine in VirtualBox. After doing so, I could not connect from any other client, though http://localhost worked. For that matter, I was unable to even ping the server.
After doing some research, I found that enabling File and Print Sharing on the server solved the problem, but surely there has to be a better way, and I would much prefer to learn to use the best method, rather than the easiest one.
What, specifically, should I do to enable both pinging of the server as well as access to the web server running on it?
Isn’t it that the inbound web HTTP port is blocked by default? I’m not a server guru but can remember going to the firewall to allow it through. Should already be there.