Topic: https blocked

[janet]

jugglingphil

Perhaps you have overlooked Charlies advice, "I suspect that OP's problem might be default gateway configuration and/or proxy configuration on client machines."
Charlie is pretty good at his analysis & hits the mark in most cases.
You demonstrated that your sme server does have https access to the net with the command
lynx -dump https://www.contribs.org/
ie "If this command on the server shows content, then https is not being blocked outbound from the server".

So the problem is from workstation to sme or at the workstation, I don't see that rebuilding sme will fix that incorrect configuration.

On sme do
ifconfig

On workstation do
ipconfig /all
and post both outputs back here  for comment/analysis.

[jugglingphil]

Stefano, Mary (and Charlie) thank you for your responses.
I will follow advice and post results shortly.

[CharlieBrady]

The old SME 7.0 server was moved to a new Local IP address, while the new 7.5.1 server given the old local IP of the 7.0 server. Both set the same on the external side.

Do both have DHCP enabled?

Have you checked the default gateway address on any of the client machines?

[Igi2003]

Gone a bit off topic here, I definitely don't want to disable my WAN side.

My WAN side is not disabled. My PPPoE connection is configured with "adsl-setup" and works. My SME works in Server and Gateway mode and has two NICs, one internal and one external.
Only my "WAN Service" is disabled.