Slow client opening is about 95% of the time DNS related - your clients are having issues accessing DNS.
It could be that they're accessing DNS and getting your public IP address for the mail server, and they're going through the router to hit Exchange. -------------------------------------------------------------- Roger D. Seielstad - MCSE Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis Inc. > -----Original Message----- > From: Matt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 9:32 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Exchange 5.5 and firewall > > > Using standard 192.x.x.x. and 255.255.255.0. There are no > wins. Pretty simple set up single server running exchange and > 1 database program. This works great. I don't think I need to > open any addiotnal ports since everyone is behind the > firewall and the server is recving email! Fire wall is a > soinicwall soho3 -----Original Message----- > From: Gonzalez, Alex [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 9:27 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Exchange 5.5 and firewall > > > Check your subnet and make sure they are correct for Class B > or C or how ever you did it. Also check all your DNS and > WINS to make sure the clients are routing properly > > Alex > > -----Original Message----- > From: Matt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 9:21 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > > Quick questions. Running 5.5 sp3 nt4.0 sp6. Server was not > behind firewall running on public IP's. Yesterday installed > Firewall 15 wkstations (win98 outlook 2000) and server behind > firewall. Gave everyone Private Ips and a 1 to 1 nat for > exchange ip address. > > Everything works internally but outlook on the win98 clients > became very slow opening. Most units get the server not > available retry Or work off line. I can retry and outlook > will eventually hook up but it is way to slow. Is there > something I missed. Do not need access to exchange server > from outside the network > > Thanks for any help > > _________________________________________________________________ > 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] > _________________________________________________________________ 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]
