Clients Cannot Connect to the Server

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Applies To: Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 with SP1

Windows Server 2003 provides a software-based firewall to help prevent unauthorized connections to your server from remote computers. By default, the Internet Connection Firewall (ICF) is disabled. However, if you have enabled the firewall in its default configuration after installing Windows Server 2003 and before installing IIS 6.0, clients will not be able to connect to your server. Use the following procedure to configure the ICF to allow clients to initiate Web and other IIS–related connections to your server.

For information about configuring ICF for IIS, see Before Configuring IIS.