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by blinmdd

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I've got registered www.mydomain.com domain name plus static IP addresss provided by Sprint with ADSL high speed internet access.Have Small Business Win-2000 server with Web and Exchange server installed plus running DNS.Router setup for NAT:static- to ports 23,25,220,80 etc. transleted to 192.168.1.2.
All diagnostics such as:- netdiag,DNS monitoring(simple and recursive),ping,nslookup - fine !
I have CNAME ,Alias and MX records.
I can browse my web by IP address.I can send messages from Outlook, but - I can not browse by www.mydomain.com and can not receive any e-mails
to Outlook.Also under IIS-5 MyWeb properties - there are 3 error signs related to Exchange/Public and Exchange/MBX folders:system cannot find the path specified.SBS-2K pretty much
self-configured server,sounds very simple.
Intranet works fine.Please any suggestions.

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by joseph moore

In your domain registration, what nameservers did you define? Normally, you use the nameservers of your ISP. You also would then have your ISP build the MX and A records on those nameservers. Those records resolve to your IP address your ISP assigned you.
If you have your IP address as a nameserver for your domain registration, then it probably won't work. Your ISP has to do the work on their end. At least, that is how it usually works.

hope this helps

by hberkhoff

Default, your DNS server is a Root server. Which means that your the highest in rank. In this situation your DNS server doesn't forward requests to the internet. Open MMC and DNS. Delete the dot --> "." entry. After this you should be able to resolve external names. However.... if your internal dns name is the same as the external then you have to configure your internal dns for name resolution. For example : When you try to connect to the external www.mydocuments.com you have to configure an entry in your local dns which connects to the external ip adres of the domain.
The same problem is your mailserver ... and so on. All has to be configured on the local dns.
The best way is to have your internal dns name different from the external.E.g. internal : mydomain.local, external : mydomain.com
I hope this will do the trick

by antsoair

To send e-mail you use SMTP port 25 but to receive e-mail you use POP3 port 110 or IMAP (for Outlook and Exchange) port 143. Check to make sure they are not blocked.

The mapped folders you are referring to are for using Outlook Web Access. I amnot sure why they are having trouble; check to make sure that your Exchange services are started and that you can mount the Exchange message store.

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