client view on LAN

[deanb44]

Im new to FT and have set up 3 forms and its working great.
I have searched the forums, have a Xampp server in house hosting a site. Is it possible to have clients view submissions in the same LAN?

[Ben]

Hi Dean,

It all depends on whether your LAN has a public face: can people access it from outside? Your LAN will need to have an external IP address where people can access the webpages, otherwise no, it can't be done.

Good luck!

- Ben

[deanb44]

Thanks for the quick reply, Ill have to ask the network admin about that. I was thinking there might be an alias that could be put in the config.php to solve that.

[deanb44]

Ok so i checked and we do have a publice face to the lan, I am able to view from out side the lan. I have setup a similar enviroment at home and have no problems viewing on the lan there. And the only difference i can see is a different broadband provider (home is cable)(work DSL)
I have checked the firewalls on the DSL router and short of putting the server in a DMZ i've opened it up but cant get the view.
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance

[deanb44]

I have found the answer after a couple of weeks of reading and asking questions so i thought i would share.
As Ben said there has to be a public facing to the internet, although there is another part that must be met.
The most important is that you must have hardware that supports NAT loopback.
When i tested at home i have a cable modem that is a basic bridge and with a little luck i have a router that supports NAT loopback.
At the office we have a DSL modem/router that does not support NAT loopback. So I called my DSL provider and got help to configure our modem/router to operate in bridged mode and used a the same router that i have at home. Also take note even though router models may be the same they might have different hardware versions as did mine, I found a custom firmware that allowed me to turn on the feature.

[Ben]

Nice, thanks so much for posting the solution! Neat problem (+ solution).

- Ben