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Are you running Exchange Front-End Processors? If so, is the FEP up there in the DMZ?

Port 80 should be open already if you have users passing traffic to and from the Internet.

you'll need to setup a rule on the firewall that will allow any outside request to port 8181 to be forwarded to the internal IP of your server...

Any outside user will need to type in Http://ip-of-pubilc-interface:8181 to connect on the new port.

I'd recommend using 443 since the username and password will be encrypted, and you can setup a Stand Alone Certificate Authority to generate your own certificate.

Hope this helps.

Mike

- Don't think I'm running the Exchange Front-End Processor, should I be?
- Don't have a DMZ set-up, the set-up is a very simple single server system with exchange and file sharing running on a single server (it's only a small charity network).
- I don't think port 80 is open because it's not in any of the firewall settings and I need to use port 80 to get to the HTML config page on the router/firewall.

- I have tried setting the firewall to allow both port 8181 and 443 through but maybe I am doing something wrong. There are options for 'Port Redirection' which I am using to get the e-mail throught to the exachange server, and there is the ability to 'Open Ports' which should I be using?

- Using the port 8181 works fine inside the firewall so it is definately a problem there somewhere but I'm at a loss to know what I'm doing wrong.

Check and see if you can administer the firewall via telnet. If you can and feel comfortable with it, go ahead and forward the port. Also, what about setting up Terminal Services and administering the firewall through that on the internal ip address?

Thanks for help, I found a rule on the firewall that was blocking some of the incoming IP, so modified it to allow my ports thorugh, all works fine now.

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