Re: LAN connection from XP client to SBS 2003 Exchange server stop

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"leapy" wrote:

"AG" <AG@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:4A51A2D6-3DA5-4579-9F6E-D04B682AF323@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> We have an SBS 2003 standard network. Today one of our XP Pro client
> notebooks on a wireless 802.11g connection suddenly cannot connect to
> Exchange over the LAN (through an access point) from Outlook 2007. It > had
> been working fine up to today. This machine can still connect to > Exchange
> using OWA with the same password and login name. (And it has no > problem
> getting to the Internet) I cannot set up a LAN new connection from
> Outlook
> which will connect to Exchange. One recent change to the notebook is > that
> there were some .net framework updates recently installed. I removed > .net
> framework 3.5 SP1, but this did not fix the problem.
>
> When I go into the email account settings on the notebook and try to
> repair
> the email account, it has the correct email name, but fails on the > search
> for
> server settings using this name (the same one that works on OWA).
>
> We have another, older notebook using Outlook 2003, which connects > through
> the access point and has no problem connecting to the Exchange server.
>
> Any ideas on fixes?
> -- > AG


Check your firewall settings. Outlook uses different ports to OWA (http).

L


"AG" <AG@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:150B0C7F-ADEE-4011-A4A1-73CB45A14075@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
It turns out that I cannot print to the network either. I get the message
the RPC Server is unavailable. Now I also noticed that I cannot access other
computers on the network through Windows Explorer, although OWA still works
and I can remote (MSTSC.exe) into the server and see the rest of the network
that way.

I'm thinking I may have to reinstall Windows (ie, do a repair reinstall).
If worse comes to worse, everything is fully backed up on an external hard
drive and I have copied the directories over fully so that the data can
easily be reimported. But it is a 2006 vintage Lenovo T60 notebook and
getting all the drivers again is a pain.
--
AG

It sounds to me like a DNS issue. Are you accessing the server (for OWA and remote access) through an external URL ( and thus available to your ISP's DNS Server) but internal network DNS is failing (hence printing, browsing are unavailable)? Check that your client has access to local network DNS.


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