Newbie: E2k / outlook client question..

[hoinvip]

Hi,

I've just inherited an exchange 2k server with outlook 2k clients which needs some serious attention. The user PCs have been configured to open the appropriate mailbox for the person that usually sits at each PC which is fine most of the time. However, we now have people sharing desks and I want to know if it's possible to have outlook / exchange access based on the win2k logon? I've seen references to doing this in a manual I have but can't find any definitive information.

We have win98 clients, outlook 2000 and exchange 2000 running on a win2k server.

Also, this email system has been running on an internal network only and now we want to link it to the net via a DSL connection. Can anyone offer any suggestions on the best way to do this?

If anyone can help, I'd be really grateful.

Many thanks in advance,

Peter

 

[Zelandakh]

Read up on roaming user profiles and Windows 98. Or kixtart.

 

[tiewire]

As for Part 1 of your question, Zelandkh has presented the only possible solution that I could think of... short of upgrading all of your pc's to Win2k pro.

As for Part 2, getting hooked up to the internet is easy. Call up an ISP and set up a DSL connection (I prefer Speakeasy.net). Then, get a firewall. I assume that your Exchange server and your Domain Controller are not the same machine. If they are not, then set up your Exchange server on the DMZ port of your firewall and assign it a public IP. Once that is done, make sure to point your domain's mail exchanger(MX) to this IP... ie mail.mydomain.com 65.111.222.22. Then, you can share the internet connection with the rest of the machines on your network through NAT run off of your firewall. Of course, this assumes that you have a fairly small network.

If your Domain Controller and your Exchange Server are the same computer (not recommended), then you can either set up one-to-one NAT between your firewall and your DC or you can assign a public IP to your DC and have two NICs. This way you run NAT on your server. One NIC has the Public IP and one has a Private IP for sharing your internet connection with all of your clients. This configuration is not recommended because it exposes your DC to the public internet...albeit behind a firewall. (The firewall must be set to allow SMTP and HTTP traffic in to receive email and allow access to mail via OWA.

Hope this helps

 

[ACraib]

How do you set up Part 1 with w2k pro .... without using roaming profiles?

 

[Xybertron]

You will need to do this each time they use another computer for the first time. If you had roaming profiles you wouldn't need to keep setting up profiles. So either they need to do it once per machine or with roaming profiles then once per domain.

Profgen might help. Not sure the syntax but used it when I was an admin. Don't do client stuff anymore. Dan
Microsoft Exchange Support @ Microsoft