Topic: Can SME provide SMTP service in server-onlu mode?

[tlicht]

A newbie to SME, I just configured it in server only mode. It seems that SMTP service would not work - and at least as far as I have managed to come yet, SME does not know of any external DNS nor which gateway to use.
I'd want the following from SME:

1. Domain controller for a mixture of wondows workstation.
2. Common storage for files needed by many users like MSAccess databases and documents and such....
3. SMTP services for outgoing mail.

I imagine that 1. and 2. are possible with SME in server only mode - how about 3.?

[Quail_Linux]

A newbie to SME, I just configured it in server only mode. It seems that SMTP service would not work - and at least as far as I have managed to come yet, SME does not know of any external DNS nor which gateway to use.
I'd want the following from SME:

1. Domain controller for a mixture of wondows workstation.
2. Common storage for files needed by many users like MSAccess databases and documents and such....
3. SMTP services for outgoing mail.

I imagine that 1. and 2. are possible with SME in server only mode - how about 3.?

Hi,

It is all possible.

Start reading the manual at this link:
http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/bobk/SME_Manual/chpt-00.1-toc.html

[tlicht]

Thanx for you not very helpful reply - naturally I started with the manual and obviously could not find an answer to my problem.

[arne]

There is absolutely no problems to run the mail server in server only mode. I have used it as in/out mail server, fileserver, domaincontroller at work and at home and allways configured as server only. (Because it fit best with the way my network have been buildt, there were not need for any aditional roter.)

I think that things lik ip, dns server, gateway etc is among the things you are configuring during the installation.

If you did not, as far as I remember .. you can log on to the sme server via shell as root and get en ordinary Linux logon. Alternatively you can log on using the admin acount and you will jump right into the menues where you do the basic configuration, ip adress, gateway, dns server and so on.

At least it work like this on my sme servers, but there is some alternative choices during installation, so there might be some differences. Don't know about that for sure, as I normally does it the same way.

To log in via putty.exe as admin and make a new "basic configuration" I believe is the medicine I have used when things have come far out.

Problem: The sme servers runs for years without problems, so it is difficult to remember.  

Arne.

[tlicht]

Thanx Arne,
I managed (partly) to make Qmail act as SMTP - I seemed to have missed the gateway during the first install.
I still hava a problem with attachments. I get a 10054 error (connection reset by remote side) on a network client trying to send mail with attachment. It actually might be an SME related problem and not necesseraly a Qmail problem - I don't know. The size of the attachment seems to be of no importance. Qmail does not report these tries/failures at all.
Another - maybe related - problem is that I don't seem to manage to connect to the server with WinSCP.....

I am also aiming to reach the state where I will have problems remembering how to do things on the SME due to the long interwals between the times I have to interfere  

[arne]

I think there is a restriction on the size of the attachment you are allowed to send (?). Try with a smaller. (I think it also can be modified to accept bigger attachments, but I do not remember this procedure.

If it is possible to log on with putty or some other ssh clients it should also be possible to log on with winscp.

As far as I remember the ssh (winscp) is disabled by default so you have to first open for such a logon from the server-manager panel.

Arne

[tlicht]

Yesss!  
Enabling ssh did the trick for WinSCP!
I am afraid that I haven't yet reached the level where attachment size is an issue. Testing with any size fails with the same error..... and still it seems that the messages don't even reach Qmail - at least it doesn't report it.....