Setting up OWA 5.5 help.

[rurbaniak]

Ok, I'm setting up an NT 4.0 Server with IIS to host the OWA Server, and I'm going to place it on my DMZ.

I've requested a PUBLIC IP for this server from my ISP for this server.

Now, since the OWA server must be part of my domain so it can authenticate users, how do I setup the IP?

I'm confused. Thanks

 

[rdroske]

That is normally handled with NAT translations on a firewall or router.

With all of my machines that are accessed with public addressses the IP actually on the machine stays an internal one and a router (inside of a hardware firewall) translates requests for the public IP to the appropriate internal address.

But then I don't really have a DMZ yet (unfortunately). What you are suggesting sort of violates the DMZ idea but I would probably do that with a second NIC at least, one on the DMZ and one on internal.

Might even want to consider this something of a hybrid.
Have a strict DMZ where machines can't even see any inside networks and another semi-DMZ of machines with a NIC on each.

Thats the kind of thing we've been talking about.

Hopefully someone else will post on this.

 

[rurbaniak]

Thanks rdroske. It was a tough day today, I wasn't thinking. Of course, a 1 to 1 NAT setup on my firewall will take care of this..