Topic: Some questions

[Mike Stoddart]

I'm pretty sure this is a simple question, if I would only read the docs!!! So shout at me if I'm being silly and missing something obvious.

I have my E-Smith server hooked up to Shaw's cable internet service (formerly @home). My Win98 client PC can't contact Shaw's mailserver (shawmail), as it can't resolve the address for shawmail. I noticed that the client PC is using my E-Smith server as a DNS server, when I would have thought it would be using Shaw's DNS servers. Am I wrong in my assumption, or is there somerthing I need to configure?

Also, if I don't have a domain name for my E-Smith server (I'm using it primarily as a gateway), how do I get to the web based administration pages on the E-Smith server? I can use www in my browser to get to the front page, but not the admin pages? Any ideas? e.g. I used to do www.e-smith.stodge.net, but the domain name stodge.net points to another server elsewhere.

Thanks for any help.

[Terry Brummell]

Mike Stoddart wrote:
>
> I have my E-Smith server hooked up to Shaw's cable internet
> service (formerly @home). My Win98 client PC can't contact
> Shaw's mailserver (shawmail), as it can't resolve the address
> for shawmail. I noticed that the client PC is using my
> E-Smith server as a DNS server, when I would have thought it
> would be using Shaw's DNS servers. Am I wrong in my
> assumption, or is there somerthing I need to configure?

You probably have your client set to use "mail" as your @Home server name, the E-Smith server will resolve "mail" to itself as it is set up as an alias. To check your @Home account from the client, change it's pop3 server to mail.your@homehostnamehere.com  for example mine is "mail.flfrd1.on.wave.home.com", that is the mail server for my shub which the e-smith server then resolves to it's IP addy and I can get my @Home email on my client.

To access the web based administrator of the e-smith box I think now depends on version, on 4.1.2 you can use http://servername:980 or http://IP ADDY:980 on SME V5 I think it's something like http://servername/server-manager or http://IP ADDY/server-manager
Hope it helps!

Terry

[Mike Stoddart]

Thanks for your help!

My problems is that I'm using Shaw's cable internet service, which they've taken over from @Home, so I don't know the address of the pop3 and smtp servers. Of course I can talk to tech support if I wait on the phone for 30 minutes!!!!

I've tried to use pop.shaw.ca, pop3.shaw.ca and mail.shaw.ca, but they didn't work.

I don't know my mail.your@homehostname.com as you put it; how do I find that out?

On a final note, any ideas how to do a reverse DNS lookup from IP address to domain name?

I also forgot to mention that I'm using 4.0 of the E-Smith software, as it was called back then.

Thanks again!

[Terry Brummell]

If you want to email me your external IP address I may be able to find the mail server you should be using.
And nope, don't know much about reverse DNS.  Sorry
Terry

Mike Stoddart wrote:
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> My problems is that I'm using Shaw's cable internet service,
> which they've taken over from @Home, so I don't know the
> address of the pop3 and smtp servers. Of course I can talk to
> tech support if I wait on the phone for 30 minutes!!!!
>
> I've tried to use pop.shaw.ca, pop3.shaw.ca and mail.shaw.ca,
> but they didn't work.
>
> I don't know my mail.your@homehostname.com as you put it; how
> do I find that out?
>
> On a final note, any ideas how to do a reverse DNS lookup
> from IP address to domain name?
>
> I also forgot to mention that I'm using 4.0 of the E-Smith
> software, as it was called back then.
>
> Thanks again!

[Terry Brummell]

Just had another thought, if you can, connect your Win98 box direwctly back to Shaw again.  Go out to a command prompt and type "ping shawmail", your Win98 box should resolve that name properly since the e-smith box isn't in the way.  Then, reconnect the e-smith box and put yourself back on the lan.  Now you have the IP address (make sure you write it down when you ping it) of the Shaw mail server.  Add that ip address to your mail client and BINGO!, you have mail.

Terry

[Gary Barnett]

Hi Mike,

Regarding reverse DNS lookup you should be able at the command line on your e-smith server just type:   nslookup  xx.xx.xx.xx.  (substituting the IP addr of interest).  If the IP addr has been globally published you should see the domain name.  You can also go Network Solutions whois web site  http://www.netsol.com/cgi-bin/whois/whois

Hope this helps.

Gary

[Terry Brummell]

Here is a mail server I found for Shaw, it is in BC.  You might be able to use it, I know I can use any mail server from Rogers and works just fine.  Try it out....

mail.coppervalley.bc.ca   which resolves to 204.174.16.4

Terry

[Mike Stoddart]

Thanks for your help everyone! All is working well now.

[Mike Stoddart]

Ok, I tried to use http://servername/ and http://servername:980 and http://ipaddress/ and http://ipaddress:980 to access the e-smith-manager for my E-Smith server, but none of these work. Everytime I get "cannot find server" or "page cannot be displayed" . Any ideas what to do?

Thanks

[Luckydog]

Have you got a proxy server set in your browser?

If so, turn it off.

[Tom Childs]

concering logging into e-smth from w98 machine:

 I had to change my default login to my current domain to match my admin name and password. once I did that I was able to access the server manager via ie5, I have my box remember my user name and password, and put the address as a shortcut on my desktop. one click and I am logged in!
let me know if I can be of asny other help.
tom

[Mike Stoddart]

I guess it helps if you make sure that your httpd daemon has been started!!!!!