Hello, I have one question that's been boggling my mind for a while. I think the networking forum's the best one for this.

So I'm a freshman at my college and I'm trying to set up an http/ftp/samba server for few of my buddies to use (school allowed). I'm running Slackware 12.0 (cli-only). The samba part is done. Now onto the http/ftp.

My problem is that there is already an HTTP IIS server set up on the network (on the main server in the lab) to which I have no access to (senior class, go figure). Nor the router/firewall. When I type localhost in my browser, I get this IIS server. Once I've tried setting up an Apache server on one of the computers in the lab, but I couldn't access it by using the machine's IP. When I used the localhost (or the ip that I got through whatismyip.com or whatever lookup), I'd get this IIS server. So that's the whole DHCP crap going on.

My question: Is there a way to set up a second server on the network?

Would I simply just have to use a different port on the 2nd one and just using the IP i got from the IP address lookup? (like 8080)?

Or is there some other solution to that problem, it's 1am and my mind's just wandering around trying to figure it out. Can't find many how-to's on the web either, so I figured I'd ask here.


Thanks for any help/links/etc.

the fact that there is an IIS box is utterly irrelevant. if "localhost" points to a remote machine, then you've presumably got messed up dns settings, most specifically /etc/hosts. the only way to change localhost to something else is to either change or delete the entry / file altogether, both of which are bad ideas...