web access of emails 2

[LesNicholls]

Anyone know how to set up web access for exchange so users can access mail over the web?
Win 2k server and clients but exchange 5.5

 

[quell]

If you want users to be able to access there email from anywere on the net you will need to set up OWA (Outlook Web Access) Here are some links that might help

http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/techinfo/deployment/55/Upgrade2000qi.asp

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;234805

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;290287

 

[N0ktar]

http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Installing_Outlook_Web_Access_55_In_Windows_2000_Server.html

 

[LesNicholls]

Thanks to you both.

Anyone know how, once it is set up you actually access your emails via the web and also if the calendars etc become accessable?

 

[MHUK]

Hi there

I have OWA installed on my server but I don't think it is configured correctly yet to allow 'external' access to network email. Internally I have tested it on a web browser using the following URL:

http://ipAddressOfServer/Exchange/nameOfuser

This then prompts you to enter the network username and password for that user. This all works fine. However when outside work, say at home, I test it by typing in the same URL but it eventually says Gateway Timeout the server could not be reached.

What is the problem here? And how do I make my IP address of our server 'reachable' or recognised on the web?

The network I run is on Windows 2000 and we have SBS 2000 and Exchange.

Any help will be really appreciated.

Thank you

MHUK

 

[MHUK]

...It could be that I am using the wrong IP address in the URL when trying to access our network email. The IP I am using is just the IP address of our network server. Is this correct?

Thank you again for any help with this and my previous post above.

MHUK

 

[jakesups]

Is the ip address assigned by your ISP? I don't know if your firewall has anything to do with it, but you should check that as well.
Jim

 

[beerhunter2]

Internally you need to use the following URL:

http://ipAddressOfServer/Exchange/nameOfuser

Externally you need to use the following URL:

http://mail.YourDomainName/Exchange/nameOfuser

Help! I've fallen and I can't reach my beer.

 

[kaiana]

You need to be able to access your server(primary Address) over the net.

Example.
A server using two nic cards (LAN 192.168.0.1) WAN (10.0.0.1) and router(10.0.0.100)
If you have a static IP address (203.114.76.234)you would type 203.114.76.234/exchange.

The request would reach your router. You need to configure your router to forward port 3389 to the WAN NIC (10.0.0.100).

The request would then reach the wan nic(10.0.0.100) and you need to configure a port forward of 3389 to LAN(192.168.0.1) "I suggest using RAS/NAT and configure the port forward on the wan interface"

The request now reaches your Destination.

If you dont have a static ip use a dynamicDNS provider eg:

http://www.noip.com.

 

[LesNicholls]

I thought I had installed OWA on teh server but it all happened very quick. How can I tell if it did install?

 

[Zelandakh]

go to iisadmin and look for /exchange in the default folder.

Or internally go to mailserver/exchange from any box on the lan.

 

[LesNicholls]

Can't see anything in IIS admin that says Outlook Web Access, does that mean it didn't install?

 

[LesNicholls]

The problem was I didnt install teh service pack, now i have I can access OWA internally but not externally.
I tried

http://mail.YourDomainName/Exchange/nameOfuser

but no joy.
When you say YourDOmainName is that ours or do I literally type in YourDomainName?

 

[Dyadmin]

just try

http://mail.YourDomainName/Exchange

and wait for the OWA login page. (It's big and yellow and easy to navigate) if you get that, try logging in with your username's alias on exchange 5.5 for instance it's usually firstname first initial of the last name like Joey Styles is Joeys and try loggin in from there.

 

[LesNicholls]

I've tried and tried it just doesnt work! Internally no problems though..... help!

 

[yoja]

I had the same problem. In my case the the domain name was not being resolved. However, internally the mail.domain/exchange worked, externally I could use the ip address, ex.

http://216.86.12.22/exchange.

Once I had the domain name resolving correctly it worked. Now internally we use the ip address of the exchange server (10.0.0.XX) and externally the

http://mail.domain/exchange.

The external IP address still works as well.

 

[Dyadmin]

Yeah try the IP address itself then, also ensure port 80 is open on your router that's connected to the internet and try it. If that doesn't show up, I'm thinking that your having NAT issue and the ports are resolving inward.

 

[johnbanshee]

You need to do a couple of things to ensure web access works via the Internet:

-You have already tested internally so you will know if OWA is set up and running ok.

- Set up your router/firewall to allow and forward external connections to the exchange server, as mentioned on Port 80 if that is the [default] port that IIS is listening on.


-If you wish to access your server via a normal web address rather than by IP, you need to configure the domain name - I always use

http://webmail.mydomain.org

etc - this involves getting the domain's admin to add an 'A host record' for the domain that points at the router's external IP address. Probably worth doing as most users will find this easier to memorise than the IP address...

HTH

JB

 

[LesNicholls]

Thanks for that! How do I configure the domain name and where?

 

[LesNicholls]

Very Strange but now even trying to access OWA internally I get this:

ERROR
The requested URL could not be retrieved

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

While trying to retrieve the URL:

http://10.0.0.2/exchange/logon.asp

The following error was encountered:

Connection Failed
The system returned:

(111) Connection refused
The remote host or network may be down. Please try the request again.


Any ideas?