Help I've got an XP on my Linux network

[brad.mugleston at comcast.net]

On Sat, 25 Mar 2006, Ted Potter wrote:

> On 3/25/06, brad.mugleston at comcast.net <brad.mugleston at comcast.net> wrote:
> > I've finally got more time to play with this XP thing and I'm
> > still not getting it.  First I want to thank Ted, Bob and Harold
> > for their suggestions - I guess I just couldn't follow them.
> >
> > Anyway, I've got a family XP box that almost everyone in the
> > house uses (but me)  I've got a FC4 box in the basement that uses
> > Fetchmail to go out and grab emails off the web (lots of various
> > sites for the same people)  and brings them
> > home for people to read (/var/spool/mail/loginname) - they use to
> > use my Linux box (or notebook or a different linux machine) but now
> > they want to use the XP machine (teenagers, don't know what to do
> > with them).  Anyway they have Outlook on the XP machine and everyone
> > has their own account.
> >
> > I can now map drives from the FC4 box to the XP.  I can also
> > print to the printers attached to different Linux machines.  But
> > I can't figure out how toget Outlook to read the mail on the FC4
> > machine.
> >
> > What I'd really like is the ability to leave the mail on the FC4
> > machine if possible - that way I can back it up.  But if that's
> > not availabe I'll live with that.  They will just have to learn
> > that when they use the notebook (linux) they will not have access
> > to their mail.
> >
> > So, this is what I believe I need:
> >
> > Either the ability to recognize the login name on the XP box or
> > to tie it to the parameters of Outlook under each login (I
> > believe this is the way it works) but how do I tell Outlook where
> > to look?  I tried \\192.168.1.55\var\log\mail\sam - for the
> > outlook setup under Sam but that didn't seem to find the box.  I
> > also tried variations of that.
> >
> > I haven't even tried to get it to send email but that should be
> > easy as in the past I've just use everyones comcast account and
> > didn't rely on the mail server to do anything.
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > Brad Mugleston, KI0OT
> >
> > There are 10 types of people in this world.  Those that
> > understand binary and those that don't.
> >
> > On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, Ted Potter wrote:
> >
> > > On 3/21/06, Mugleston, Brad <brad.mugleston at retirementpartner.com> wrote:
> > > > Here's the low down.  For school purposes we ended up having to purchase
> > > > a Windows machine to run the kids school software (AMD 64 processor so I
> > > > can't wait to assumeulate it into Linux).  But as it's there I want to
> > > > get it working with the network.  I've got SAMBA working on my server
> > > > (FC4) and have somehow managed to map some drives (late last night, hope
> > > > there are still mapped today).  My next step is to set up Email as I
> > > > have my server picking up email from all the places the kids have email
> > > > accounts and delivering it to Linux mail boxes.   I haven't set up
> > > > Outlook for a few years but if I remember correctly it wasn't too
> > > > difficult but then in the older version of windows and mapping a drive
> > > > under SAMBA wasn't too difficult either.
> > > >
> > > > Does anyone know of a good website (with pretty pictures) on how to do
> > > > this or can someone talk me out of (or through) doing this?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >
> > > > Brad
> > > >
> >
> Brad -
>
> just for testing try this.
>
> 1. in outlook express go to tools email accounts or whatever
> ms calls it these days.
>
> 2. look for the server setup area
> 3. in the pop3 server name use
> 192.168.1.55
> 4. in the username password setting use
> the login name (from the FC4 box) and password.
> 5. Under advanced select keep mail on server
>
> Then see if you can receive the email from the FC4
> box.
>
> email using tcp/ip not smb that is why it is simple. Your
> FC4 box is like many email servers on the internet. They work
> the same.
>
> for a simple test on the windows machine get to the dos prompt.
> they type:
> telnet 192.168.1.55 110
> that should log you in to the FC4 box on port 110 (which is used
> for pop3 mail) you should get some kind of response.
>
> hth
>
>
> --
> Ted Potter
> tpotter at techmarin.com
>
> _______________________________________________
Ted,
Thanks as my earlier email said I got it working with your and
everyone elses help.

Thanks,

Brad

PS - I haven't yet played with what you sent but next time I can
get on the XP machine that's what I'll do.