IIS 5 connection actively refused problem

I suprisingly found this error message this morning when trying to connect
REMOTELY to my web servers:
"the server actively refused the connection"
(it works locally fine)

when I go to the IIS Management, I found on the Security tab that the button
for "IP adress restriction" is disabled !
even on any sub folder or web application folder.

I don't remenber if this feature is disabled by behavior on IIS running on
workstations (w2k or XP), but i don't think so
or if it is beceause of the recent patches ( all the available patches were
applied, consequently to the various worms)...

this problem appears today on of my 3 PC running XP corp and w2k pro with or
without .Net installed (I'm using HTML, ASP and ASP.Net)

This is a limitation of the desktop OS. It is enabled on server versions.

Thank you. I hope this information is helpful.

Tim Coffey [MSFT]

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| I suprisingly found this error message this morning when trying to connect
| REMOTELY to my web servers:
| "the server actively refused the connection"
| (it works locally fine)
|
| when I go to the IIS Management, I found on the Security tab that the button
| for "IP adress restriction" is disabled !
| even on any sub folder or web application folder.
|
| I don't remenber if this feature is disabled by behavior on IIS running on
| workstations (w2k or XP), but i don't think so
| or if it is beceause of the recent patches ( all the available patches were
| applied, consequently to the various worms)...
|
| this problem appears today on of my 3 PC running XP corp and w2k pro with or
| without .Net installed (I'm using HTML, ASP and ASP.Net)
|
|
|