At 01:51 PM 8/11/98 +0200, you wrote:
>Hi there,
>
>Recently I was using a Linux box with IP-masquerading to share an IP
>address
>between some Wintel machines. Net access is provided via an Ascend
>Pipeline (combined router/ISDN modem).
>
>I have MS-Outlook 98 as my mail client on one of these machines and
>I am using an MSExchange server.
>
>Unfortunately, the Outlook client does not work in such a configuration
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What you probably need is a masquerading module (like the ftp module) that
makes this protocol work. The unfortunate part is that you will probably
have trouble getting the protocol specs out of Microsoft. They tend to be
really annoying about giving out protocol info.
Try some or all of the following:
1) Check microsoft's support on-line web site and try to find any articles
dealing with running outlook across a router or over RAS or something like
that. You are looking for any information about using outlook in situations
where the exchange server is not on the same local net as the client. There
might be information there that will give you what you need. It is just
vaugely feasable that you might be able to do the job with appropriate port
forwarding. I doubt it, but who knows?
2) You could try running wingate on the mail client box and using it to
masquerade the rest of the machines. Not an optimal solution in any case,
but it might do the job if all else fails.
3) You could try running packet sniffing software on the linux machine to
try and reverse engineer the protocol, then write an appropriate module.
This would of course, be somewhat labor intensive.
4) Is there a way to access your exchange server via POP instead of the
exchange protocol? I've never managed an exchange server, but mabey you can
just use POP or IMAP on the thing and avoid the problem that way.
Good luck!
Michael Kohne
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