Topic: SME / WIN2k3 OWA Access issues

[grattman]

I hope someone can help me iron this one out.

I have two SME 6 servers set up, and the are working wonderfully. An issue has come to light recently regarding accessing a certain WIN2K3 OWA.

When a user tries to access this OWA, it will log them in but they cannot access thier inbox or any email for that matter using the web-browser. Initially I thought it to be DansGuardian blocking it. As it turns out, it is still blocked even if I turn DansGuardian off. Interestingly enough, I am able to access another WIN2K3 OWA without issue (DansGuardian on or off).

Does anyone have any insight as to what the issue may be? The site in question is of course blaming everything from the SME server to our browsers. They did mention that the may have their security turned higher than the one I can access.

Okay.....Firefox can access it, any ideas why IE cannot? Yes I know...IE bad!!

Thanks in advance.

Brian Grattan

[funkusmunkus]

hi there grattman,

in this link  http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=10556.0  

they suggest the following :

I created a directory for squid in templates-custom
type: mkdir -p /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/squid/squid.conf
Your custom fragments for squid should be created in this directory

I then created a file called 50extension_methods10SEARCH in squid.conf directory
using pico
type: pico 50extension_methods10SEARCH

file contained the single line below
extension_methods SEARCH
(thanks Derek)

saved it and then expanded the template
type: /sbin/e-smith/expand-template /etc/squid/squid.conf

restarted squid services
type: service squid restart

the reason owa doesn't work is webdav by the way, but if they are using https it shouldn't matter.

hope that helps
cheers

[grattman]

Well....first of let me thank all the people that put the effort out there intially to solve this problem. It would seem quite a bit of research went into it. Secondly, let me thank funkusmunkus for digging it up out of the archives for me.

As it turns out, the school is not using a secure connection for their web-based email, which is wy my schools worked, but my associates did not. I did make the changes as described, but have yet to test it.

Thanks again.

[smeghead]

.. if you search for OWA in the forums you will see a few threads that suggest s few more options to extend the functionality of squid.

[funkusmunkus]

you were lucky grattman because i spent a lot of time trying to work it out my self, so i had that page bookmarked  
and i'm glad to be of assistance
cheers