| Hi Graham - longtime since we last spoke ....
The scenario you describe seems full of potential hitches ;
- The most interesting thing is *WHAT* do you want to connect your
(presumably private) Easynet-based Exchange server to? Presumably a
customer's Exchange network if you want to replicate public folders.
As far as I understand, the public folder replication is based on
Windows NT networking and therefore you would be bridging the two
company WNT networks together.
- Secondly, you seem to want to initiate the connection from the
Digital side (questions about DIGITALn domain and trust
relationships). The trust relationship piece is quite easy to set up
for incoming but I think you'll find that even if the corporate RAS
servers do allow dial-back (if authorised) it could be difficult to
set them up to do RAS dial-out (sort of like reverse DECserver) which
is what you seem to want.
- You seem to want to use a messaging (MTA) approach to the transfer.
Is this possible with Exchange Public Folders? I thought that
the replication services (NTFS and Jet database management) took
care of this.
- I would expect there is a solution (perhaps based on tunneling) but
that you would need an ExARC approval for what you describe.
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| Hi, Chris...
Good to hear from you again..
The scenario you describe seems full of potential hitches ;
>>> Don't I know it!!!
- The most interesting thing is *WHAT* do you want to connect your
(presumably private) Easynet-based Exchange server to? Presumably a
customer's Exchange network if you want to replicate public folders.
As far as I understand, the public folder replication is based on
Windows NT networking and therefore you would be bridging the two
company WNT networks together.
>>> Yes, I do want to link to a customer's Exchange network. However, I don't
>>> think that this equates to linking the two NT networks together.
>>> Public folder replication is based on messaging (not NT networking) and
>>> so (I think) so long as the Exchange servers are configured to be within
>>> the same Organisation, they can be configured in different sites and
>>> connectors established between them. In this mode, replication of public
>>> folders should be possible to configured.
- Secondly, you seem to want to initiate the connection from the
Digital side (questions about DIGITALn domain and trust
relationships). The trust relationship piece is quite easy to set up
for incoming but I think you'll find that even if the corporate RAS
servers do allow dial-back (if authorised) it could be difficult to
set them up to do RAS dial-out (sort of like reverse DECserver) which
is what you seem to want.
>>> Ideally from the Digital side, but not essential. The point about trust
>>> relationships was that if I need to use the corporate RAS servers, then
>>> the official Digital NT domains will need to trust my domain.
- You seem to want to use a messaging (MTA) approach to the transfer.
Is this possible with Exchange Public Folders? I thought that
the replication services (NTFS and Jet database management) took
care of this.
>>> As above, it's messaging based.
- I would expect there is a solution (perhaps based on tunneling) but
that you would need an ExARC approval for what you describe.
>>> Tunneling would be a nice route, but as you say there are approvals to
>>> go through...
>>> Any thoughts...
Rgds,
Graham
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| Can't you setup your server as part of the other company's organization
and use an IMC (IMS in 5.0) for setting up the connection and the
public folder replication ? Because all is happening by mail, all you
have to ensure is internet mail connectivity with the other site, which
shouldn't be a big deal.
Pierre.
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