Port Issue

[dberg35]

Currently in my network I have port 80 open so that the owner can view the security cameras remotely. Now I want to share printers on the web using the same IP address but they also use port 80. when i enter

http://********/printers

it still goes to the camera not printers, any ideas would be great.

 

[WhoKilledKenny]

What solution are you using to share printer via port 80?

 

[dberg35]

Using IIS

 

[WhoKilledKenny]

I do not believe you can share printers through IIS. I say "believe" because I've been bitten before...

 

[dberg35]

You can I have do it before tey display on a webpage, but this time another program uses this port it won't work.

 

[WhoKilledKenny]

Could you create a new web-site in IIS, create a DNS entry for something like printers.mycompany.com (make it an alias -CNAME and point it to the web-server). In the properties of the New Web-site create a host header for the site and use the DNS entry as the host header.
Example:
1. Open IIS, right-click on new website, properties.
2. Under the website tab - click the properties button.
3. Add the host header "printers.mydomain.com"

Now when the website get a request for the hostname it will direct it to the second website which should host port 80 on the same IP address.

Let me know if that worked.

 

[itsp1965]

Did you enable Internet printing when you installed IIS? Also what WhoKilledKenny has indicated, you need to assign another port to your camera site since they will not be able to share port 80.

 

[WhoKilledKenny]

itsp1965 question for you... If he sets it up using my suggestion, would he still have to reassign the camera port? My logic was to treat both camera and printing as separate web-sites. Since IIS can host multiple web-sites over port 80, would this not allow for that to happen? If one web-site was

http://camera.mydomain.com

and the other

http://printer.mydomain.com,

my thinking would be that both apps would work over port 80, users would just need to know which URL to go to.

 

[itsp1965]

You are correct Kenny if he uses host headers there shouldn't be an issue.