Issue Connecting to my Laptop

[pinkfloydfan123]

Hello. I will admit that I'm a novice here, so I'll apologize in advance for any dumb questions.

I downloaded Subsonic onto my desktop and was able to get everything working fine. I can access my music from any computer and my dSub on my phone. Life is great. My desktop is running Windows 10.

In talking to a friend of mine at work he has a laptop with Windows 7 set up to be his "server" and he just lets it run. So, I have an older laptop that I cleaned off, installed Windows 7 (64-bit) and was intending to use this as my "server." The only thing other than Windows 7 on the laptop is the Subsonic program. I went in and created a user to test, but when I tried to log onto that user (either from my desktop or dSub) I get connection errors.

Again, everything works from my Desktop, but doesn't from my laptop. Also, I am using an external hard drive with my laptop, but not my desktop. I'm not sure if that makes a difference.

I'm confident it's a network setting on my laptop that I need to change. But for the life of me I can't figure it out.

Any ideas?

Thanks (in advance).

[G8DHE]

By default the Windows firewall will probably be blocking incoming requests ?

[pinkfloydfan123]

Thank you for your reply.

I had thought that to be the case and had shut down the Windows Firewall. Still no success.

[G8DHE]

So your browser on the laptop can connect and configure, but browsers on the same network get what sort of error when connecting ?

[pinkfloydfan123]

So, on a whim, I installed Windows 10 on my laptop and now everything works fine on my laptop. I have no idea why, but it's working and that's all that matters.

Thanks for the replies!