Reverse the search order of Tom's suggestion (DNS, LMHOSTS, then WINS) and you have my vote for the solution. Outlook uses DNS name resolution first (which can be circumvented by using a HOSTS or LMHOSTS file), then goes to WINS after that times out.
Mike -----Original Message----- From: Tom Meunier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 11:15 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Clients can't connect to Microsoft Exchange 5.5 Network connectivity and name resolution (WINS or LMHOSTS & DNS) is your starting point. > -----Original Message----- > From: Irwan Hadi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Posted At: Monday, September 09, 2002 09:04 PM > Posted To: MSExchange Mailing List > Conversation: Clients can't connect to Microsoft Exchange 5.5 > Subject: Clients can't connect to Microsoft Exchange 5.5 > > > Dear All, > > I got a problem like this: Our server is a dual Pentium III > 500 Mhz, with currently having 1 GB of Ram (I just added a > 512 MB ram). The hard drive is a 9GB X 3 with RAID 5, and > right now from totally 18 GB total capacity, only 1.5 GB > left. The server is running Windows 2000 Advanced Server with > Service Pack 3, and Microsoft Exchange 5.5 service pack 3 > (I'm going to put the service pack 4 soon). > > The problems right now are that some clients can't connect to > the server whenever they want to check their email using > Microsoft Outlook, which directly connect to the Exchange > Server (without using POP3 or IMAP). The error message is > connection time out. But for some clients they can still > connect to the Exchange server, although it's kind of flaky > (sometimes it takes 1 minute just to fetch the email directly > from the server using MS Outlook). Whenever clients try to > connect from the web, it works just fine. > > The size of the Exchange directory in c:\progra~1\exchsrvr is > +/- 9 GB (the MDB/log consuming lot of space). > > My question is does anyone know what happening with the > server right now? and how can I fix it ? > > Thanks > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
