Topic: Lan Clients not working behind router

[PaulM]

Hey all,

I have put sme6 behind a dlink adsl router and port forwarded to ports 25 and 110. External clients and send/receive mail ok but lan clients receive the following message:

The specified server was found, but there was no response form the server. Please verify that the port and ssl information is correct. also:

Log onto incoming mail server (pop3): The specified server was found, but there was no response from thje server. Please verity that the port and ssl info is correct.

Is there another port I need to open ? - anyone !

Regards
Paul M

[wyron]

Port 22 for SSL ?
But that ought to be required by external clients too (https).

[Anonymous]

Does sme6 use ssl by default? Why did it I get mail externally without it ?

Thanks Paul

[wyron]

Does sme6 use ssl by default? Why did it I get mail externally without it ?

Which type of internal clients are we talking about here ?
Webmail or 'Outlook'-type ?
I presume that external clients use the webmail interface, right ?
And of course your internal clients can 'see' their home-folders, right ?
. . so there is no problem accessing the server in other respects, only as a mailserver, right ?

[PaulM]

Wyron

All clients are using outlook.Not using webmail. I can see sme on the lan and get to home directories.

Paul

[wyron]

I'll have to get back to you later today, when I get home.
I don't use Outlook very much (I prefer webmail), but have a working setup, so I'll check my own settings on a W2K-box.

[wyron]

Well here I am again.
I have checked my own Outlook-setup, and there is nothing peculiar about it.
In the servers panel you just put your qualified domain name (ie. mydom.countrycode) without a 'mail.' prefix in the fields for Pop3 incoming and SMTP outgoing both. Likewise you put username and password in the assigned fields.
The connection panel shuld of course refer to LAN, and the advanced panel should reflect ports 25 and 110 respectively.
That works for me.

Good luck !

[Boris]

Use SME server as your DNS and WINS even if its behind your firewall.

[PaulM]

Boris

Thanks for the tip, i will try that. What happens when you use active directory cause you need dns on your domain controller?

Paul

[PaulM]

Wyron,

Thanks for your persistance, Changing dns to the sme box did the trick. Thanks for the tip Boris - however Im still curiours to know what happens when I add active directory to the lan and change the dns to the Windows Domain Controller ?

Paul

  Have one on me lads !