Guest Palindrome Posted June 9, 2008 Posted June 9, 2008 Hi, I have to set up a Win2k Server to use with Exchange 2003. Exchange is only going to be used on the local LAN. (I have only set them up before when I have had a fully qualified domain name to give the machine, correctly associated with its IP address.) The machine has a private IP address, eg 10.0.0.100. I gave it a made-up domain, eg plug.local and a machine name of "exchange". All seemed well - until I tired to connect mail on user machine. When trying to create a new mail Exchange account, I put in "exchange.plug.local" - and it couldn't find it. I put in 10.0.0.100 and when I tested the account name, it changed it to "exchange.plug.local" and underlined the account name. I thought "Great".. however... However, the amail account doesn't work within Outlook.. I am about to rebuild the whole thing from scratch (there doesn't seem to be any way of changing the domain details). But,as I don't have a valid fully qualified domain name to set the machine to, what domain details should I put in? Oh, I tried adding "10.0.0.100 exchange.plug.local" to "hosts" - but I still couldn't ping it by name, only by address.. -- Sue
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