Newbie with Tomcat - couple of simple questions

Arnie

I'm just trying to setup Tomcat on my machine, and i've run into a couple of issues.

(1) if i type in http://localhost:9000/test in IE, it gives me an error saying TCP_ERROR and how the web server is possibly down. however if i try it in Netscape, the page shows up fine. I read in the running.txt file that it had something to do with the LAN settings, but i have no idea what has to be done in there to get it to work??

(2) the second issue is, if i give someone the url http://:9000/test that is using another machine, what has to be done for them to see it? i had someone on another machine try it and they got page could not be found.

TIA