ISA Server Problems
Hi All,
I am hoping to find someone that knows what they are talking about instead of the enormous amount of IT guys who think they are gods gift but can’t give me a straight answer.
I am fed up, fed up with ISA Server. It seems to be simple, set a few filters to allow outbound and inbound access to smtp, pop ports, FTP ports but it won’t work.
I even followed a set of instructions from an ISA site, but it still doesn’t work.
I have a windows 2000 server, with windows 98, 2000, XP and MAc OS 9 and 10 Clients. The firewall client that i have read about for ISA is not installed on any machine, because i have macs as well and it no use setting something up for just the PC’s.
OK, so i setup these filters to allow outbound and inbound traffic to port 25 and 110 and 21. From the ISA server i used Outlook express and it works fine, but as soon as i go to a client machine behind the ISA server and use the exact same details it fails. The same thing for FTP access.
Obviously isa is blocking it even though i setup a filter to allow inbound and outbound access. I can acess the internet fine, and the only thing out of the ordinary i can see is our web traffic is setup to go out on port 8080 instead of 80.
I read somewhere to type netstat -na to see what ports you had open, but the only port was 192.168.1.ISA:8080 and a few ports in never never land 10000 and up.
There was a few mentions of my external NIC card with ports that did not matter in regards to SMTP POP and FTP.
Please help me, get me to perform some test so you can diagnose the problem. Something simple is probably not setup but i am beginning to think ISA is a piece of crap.
Let me note, i am no expert in ISA server but this question was supposed to get the attention of one.
Thanks