Mcoy

I'm involved in some basic web development ( writing basic html and javascript for embedded servers ) at work, and I've recently been asked to set up the windows web server on various PCs running XP, Vista and Windows 7.

Doing so seemed easy enough on my home PC with Windows 7. All that had to be done was to use "Program Features" in the control panel to enable the IIS web server, set up basic port forwarding on my home router, and add whatever pages to the wwwroot folder.... basically just hit some buttons and presto, your PC is a server now.

XP and Vista seem a bit more complicated. I've followed the few tutorials aimed at my level that I could find, and they all left me with an apparently running web server, but one that returned 404 - access denied instead of whatever web page was requested. I've tried every option/configuration related to authentication/permissions that I can find, but none of them solve the problem.

I don't expect anyone to be able to solve my problem for me, as the description was pretty vague, but does anyone know of a few good beginner IIS tutorials that walk one through initial set up to configuration?