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Sending Mail w/ Windows 2000

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by madzumo 1 view

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I've just set up a Windows 2000 server with 2 nic cards. One is hooked up to a dsl router w/the right ip and one to the internal lan. I set up DHCP, DNS, and the Remote routing service. Plus i'm using proxy. Everyone can get to the internet justfine using proxy. However, this is the problem.
No one can access their Internet mail. They use the following address to reach their mail
mail.nameofbusiness.com. When i try to ping this address from the server that's routing i get a: HOST UNREACHEABLE reply. It seems that the routing server can not even reach this mail server and no POP nor SMTP messages are getting by. Is it the remote and routing service in windows 2000?
PLEASE HELP!!!
thanks in advance

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by ed mcandrew

Assuming you mean that you are using proxy 2.0 from ms, the web proxy differs from The winsock proxy, so, this is what I do?

Pull up your proxy snap-in and go to properties of winsock proxy. Under the permissions tab, check ?enable access control?, and then select your desired protocols (pop3 and smtp) one at a time and add your group(s). Or, if access control is not tight, you can select "Unlimited Access".

Then, install the proxy client on the workstations. The install of the proxy server creates a share on the server called mspclnt.

From this point, your pop and smtp server setting should work as normal.

Hope this helps?.

by madzumo

Thanks but i have Unlimited access setup and i've eliminated the proxy issue. I uninstalled proxy completely and the routing server still can't ping the mail server but it can ping everyone on the internet!

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