Vista machines cant see local webcam at port 8080 (XP can)

[AnMig]

Situation I have had a local webcam broadcasting at 192.168.0.116:8080 (security).

I have never had problems viewing the camera thru my browser both IE and Firefox using xp.
Fast forward to a few months ago we obtained a few Vista machines (desktop and laptop) and both of them cannot open or view this camera.

Firefox: can find the camera but cant view it, hangs and crashes using java applet viewer

IE: cant even find the camera, "webpage cannot be viewed"


Firewalls are disabled on vista machines.


all of my XP machines are still able to view the camera.



Do i have to open 8080 port in Vista? where do I do this?
Suggestions

 

[MrChad]

Can you browse any other sites on your local network? I doubt that it's a port or firewall issue, but more likely a network configuration problem.

 

[AnMig]

Double checked my router/upgraded the firmware.

Yes I can see all the computers in my network, I can access all my shared folders Vista--->XP, XP---->Vista, Vista---->Vista.

It is really weird IE cant even open the page "cannot be displayed, While firefox is able to access the first page (select viewer: ActiveX viewer or Java applet viewer) but crashes/hangs when trying Java (activeX is IE only)

Again all my xp machines are able to view the camera using either web browsers.

Thanks

Software serving the camera is Activewebcam by the way

 

[entropy5]

I know on my webcam systems (GeoVision-based), I need to temporarily enable all things to do with ActiveX and running scripts. Also disable anti-phishing. These are all found in IE7 security settings. Also need to disable UAC (UserAccessControl) in the users in the Control Panel. Once I connect successfully once, I can go back and set security settings to default, but leave UAC off.