RE: [Users] Outlook and Exchange through Freeswan?

From: Alistair Nelson (alistair.nelson_at_eb2b.com.au)
Date: Thu Sep 19 2002 - 06:33:34 CEST


Hi Ken and Graham,

Thankyou, that has solved the problem!

Cheers,

Alistair.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Bantoft [mailto:ken_at_freeswan.ca]
Sent: Thursday, 19 September 2002 2:31 PM
To: Alistair Nelson
Cc: Users_at_lists.freeswan.org
Subject: Re: [Users] Outlook and Exchange through Freeswan?

On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Alistair Nelson wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Anyone had any luck getting Exchange working through Freeswan?
>
> I only use Freeswan for Win2K road warriors. The road warriors don't
> seem to be able to join the Windows domain (on the private network
> behind freeswan),
> which seems to be the cause of Outlook not being able to talk to
> Exchange (which is
> on the private network).

Use WINS. Setup your WINS server and point everyone too it. Failing
that, use lmhosts file, otherwise Windows "domain" stuff won't work
consistantly.

>
> Any ideas? Have others got Outlook on road warriors talking to
> exchange behind a freeswan gateway ok?
>

I have folks using Outlook to talk to Exchange on FreeS/WAN. We use
WINS
to do the name resolution, so everything is happy.

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