dgsmith

Hi klasika, Thanks for your speedy response, but I think I may have confused people. I have 2 problems: 1. The outlook problem is that the outlook is pointing to the server name. The servers IP address is 192.168.0.10, which is a LAN Address only, it does not exist outside of the office. I could try pointing the client to the routers public IP Address, but I am not sure that would work? Would I not need some sort of port forwarding to tell the router to sent requests of that port ID to the server? 2. The laptops have Connection Manager installed on them from the server (which is kind of like Terminal Services) but when I set the server up, I entered the IP Address of the server incorrectly, so now when the user tries to connect it fails as the IP address is invalid, but I cannot find anywhere on the client to change the IP Address. I have changed it on the server, but the only way I can think of updating it on the client is to re-run the connectcomputer wizard and go through the setup process again? Thanks again for your reply, I hope this new information can help you to help me. Regards David

Hi All, Firstly, as I am new to this forum, I would just like to take this opportunity to say Hi to all the people who frequent these forums, I am sure you will be seeing a bit more of me around here, although I like to give support when I can, from my last 3 years of experience with O/S such as 98, NT, 2000 and XP, I am not all knowing, and sometimes need help myself. As you might of already read from the other post I replied to I have recently setup a SBS2003 Server in a small company network. And the client has requested the ability to work remotly. Now SBS installs Exchange 2003 on the client which is great as they want to use shared calanders etc, but they want the ability to read there emails, calanders etc remotly. Now at the moment there topology is VERY simple: BT ISP - Netgear Gateway/Firewall - Switch - Server and Clients Now I have set the gateway port forwarding so that SMTP requests goto the Server, which processes there mail, but at the moment, the client outlook tries to connect to \\SERVERNAME which doesn't exist in the public domain. They have there own domain company.com, but how do I or what do I need to do for them to be able to work remotly? At the moment I can access there server remotly but thats all. The laptop has a Terminal Services Program on it, but that is not working yet, as I put in the wrong IP Address for the server during the wizard setup, and am not sure how to change it on the client, I am working on that. Sorry for such the long post, but I thought its easier to tell everything, and let people reply to what they can. Thanks in advance to anyone who can help, or suggest something. Kind Regards David

I have just setup a very similar environment, where the ISP connection goes into a Netgear Router, and the WAN Port on that router holds the public internet address, which you said above was: 123.45.67.89 Then the router gives itself a local address of 192.168.0.1. After I initially setup the server I had problems connecting to it remotly, but I found the problem was due to the router not allowing any connection through it. I am not sure what kind of router/device you are using but in Netgear there was an option to allow PING from the WAN Port. You should try to ping the public ip address from your friends house, and if it does NOT work then that is your problem, if it does work, then the problem is related to port forwarding. Let me know how you get on.