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zee · Joined: 15 Feb 2006 Posts: 1

Hello all, so i manage 15 websites for my clients, and decided to get my own server instead of hosting it on virtual hosting. im trying to move just 1 website for now, and will worry about the rest later. The server has been colocated, and has a static IP i have (finally) changed the DNS settings over at go daddy for the domain, it took me a while to figure out what i was doing. this is what i have for DNS

A
[Host - Points to - TTL]
@ - xx.xx.xx.xx - 3600

CNAMES
[Alias - Points to - TTL]
www - @ - 3600
ftp - @ - 3600

MX
[Priority - Host - Goes to - TTL]
0 - @ - mail.domainnameone.com - 3600

On the server i have configured domainnameone and have added a user, user@domainnameone.com, using OWA on the server i can login to the user account and send out a message, no problems

HOWEVER!!! I have configured outlook express on a local machine to connect via POP/SMTP to send and recieve, i cant seem to login, and i cant seem to send either. probably coz my local machine cannot see the server., also when i use dnsreport.com to do a diagnostic on my domain, it tells me that it couldnt get to the mail server.

on the server itself i have used the internet + email wizard to try to configure it, is there something that i need to do to enable the POP / SMTP so that clients can access it from the OUTSIDE?

also i noticed in IIS that the defaultwebsite instance has all the exchange and other virtual servers? how can i autmatically add these to every website i create? The reason why i ask is that is because i do not plan to map the defaultwebsite to a domain name, only plan to add the additional 15 to the server..

any help will be appreciated! thank you.

Leathal · Joined: 23 Feb 2005 Posts: 37

1. you have 15 websites
2. you have only 1 static IP
3. you don't want to use host headers
4. POP3/SMTP don't seem to work locally
5. you want OWA to work off indepent sites

First of all you need to be running some kind of FIREWALL, and I don't mean the regular Windows Firewall or your mickey mouse cable/dsl router, mean I am real live firewall like a PIX, or ISA 2004 Server, or something right that costs $$$.

With a real firewall you can work off 1 external IP addres quite nicely and not have your clients know they are running from one box being shared by 14 other people.

You may want to install another NIC on your SBS box, turn off DNS and WINS and give it 15 static IP addresses, no gateway, but add your DNS IP. This way you can assign each web site it's own IP address, the Firewall will know who gets what requests, if you don't use a real Firewall you are left with having to use host headers as your router will not know how to asign port 80 to all 15 IPs.

SMTP as a rule does not relay internally for a very good reason, but you can certainly add the IP of the machine you want to allow relay to your STMP in your Exchange Server.

Most people don't suggest setting up OWA sites for individual sites as it does not support - Domain/User but only supports user@domain.com, so people just setup one site everyone accesses. However if you want to add more virtual OWA sites you can under ESM.

I think that's about it.

Leathal

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