Topic: how to connect sme server to internet

[thefishguy]

sorry if my question sounds too easy but I am a completely newbie to sme server.Just heard about it today and just downloaded 6.01 and installed it.
I want to use the pc as a proxy server and probably host a website.after installation,the start screen has two options "up" and "smp".I use the first one witout knowing the difference. And the questions were straightforward,I put in internal IP and external IP.mask etc,(I have a static IP) but I didn't find a place to put int DNS provided by my ISP.so I am sure it is not connected to the internet.And everytime the system boots up,it only shows a few options,"configure your server","server status" etc. where do I get the commanad mode? I went to another PC in the same local networks,I foundout I could connect to the server manager using the browser so I did make some progress.Also I can access the simple website just created with a few texts.but the proxy server is not working.can any one help me? or direct me to the link with instructions?Thanks lot in advance!!!

[cydonia]

Not sure with regards to proxy, but to check internet connection, use a program like putty to login to the server, and then do some pings.

type into google: "Putty Download" and that should take you in the right direction, once you have it, then, reply here and i will show you some basic commands you can use to check connectivity.

Cheers.

[El_Destructo]

I'm in the same boat. I just finished installing it and I'm using http from my laptop to configure the server.

I opened port 80 on my netgear wireless router and tried to connect from work and got the default website. (typed in my router's outside ip)

it seems pretty straight forward. But I'm wondering how to configure more settings on the website (aside from the options on the console)??

[cydonia]

But I'm wondering how to configure more settings on the website (aside from the options on the console)??

What exactly do you want to configure...?

[El_Destructo]

Honestly, I dont really know

I was just thinking there'd be more options to configure, like say, logging.

Same thing with the email part of it. I set it up where just me and my roommate can send email on my local lan, I use putty to telnet to the smtp deamon and wondered if you configure more than whats at the console?

Like I said, I'm completely new to *nix and smeserver so I'm just feeling my way around, sorry if my questions come off as retarded  

[thefishguy]

how do I use it?
I downloaded the putty.exe.
I was using the static IP with another windows2000 proxy server. The ISP provided me two DSN servers to put in.Without the DNS setting,I couldn't connect to internet. But in SME server,I don't see anywhere to put in DNS servers ips.Also,how do I get to Command mode in this?

Thanks !!!

[cydonia]

Firstly, sorry if i say anything here that is too noob-ish, i'm a noob myself compared to most here, and you may already know some of what i say.  These are just very basics to test if SME is connected to the net.

So, ok, to use putty, open it up, and leave everything as is, just put into the hostname field, the hostname of your server, then click "Open".

It should come up with a security alert, this is fine, just click "Yes".

Now, once you're in, put in "root" as the user, and your server password as password.

Once you are at the command line, try typing the following commands.

ifconfig

with the above, look at the last thing that comes up, if SME is connected to the net, it should have something called ppp0.

OR

ping -c 1 google.com

If you get a rply to the ping, then the server is connected.


Let me know how these go.

Cheers.

[thefishguy]

Thanks everyone.
I got it working!!! I liked it so far.The proxy server is working.But I had problem signing in to my MSN messegner ever since.Is it a known problem?I tried yahoo messenger and it worked.is there a workaround?coz I do need to use MSN quite often.Also,I set up a simple website,I set up the name as mycompany.com. But I can't never get to the site by typing mycompany.com into IE or FireFox in any or my client PC. I can only access the webpage by typing the exact IP of the server.like http://192.100.2.1. Did I miss something in installation?what should I check? I just did a fresh install again but still the same. Your advice will be highly appreciated!!.Thanks!

[cydonia]

But I had problem signing in to my MSN messegner ever since.Is it a known problem?I tried yahoo messenger and it worked.is there a workaround?coz I do need to use MSN quite often.Also,I set up a simple website,I set up the name as mycompany.com. But I can't never get to the site by typing mycompany.com into IE or FireFox in any or my client PC.

Did you go to: http://yourserver/server-manager   and add the virtual domain for mycompany.com?  Then make sure you select the desired i-bay to display as content when you enter mycompany.com.

Cheers.

[El_Destructo]

When I login to my server, it goes right to the server console.

How can I get to the command prompt?

[bobk]

When I login to my server, it goes right to the server console.

How can I get to the command prompt?

[ctrl] + F2 will give you a command prompt. If you loging in as 'admin' will give the console so log-in as 'root' or better yet log-in as yourself and use SU. [ctrl] + F1 will take you back to the console again.