Unable to Set Up Remote Access on Windows Home Server

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Published on 2010-04-09T14:52:11Z Indexed on 2010/04/09 14:53 UTC
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When trying to turn on Remote Access on my Windows Home Server (HP MediaSmart Ex485, MediaSmart Server 3.0, Power Pack 3), I am not able to continue through the wizard as this first check fails:

"Verifying that your remote Web site is available locally"

Everything else on the server works fine, including being able to:

Ping server
RDP to server
Access all shares as expected
Browse to both http://servername and http://servername:55000

I have noticed though that I am unable to browse to http://servername:56000 as I should be able to do.

I've performed a server recovery to reset the installation to factory defaults, with no such luck.

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