Newbe sanity check here ...

I was informed my SM server is ready. So, I'm trying to log in and cannot. I have a Orbit ticket on this, but it's not being responded to. So I want to ask if I'm doing this right.

I'm running mstst and trying to login with the server username and password that is in Orbit. No Go. Should I be using something else?

For Windows server, I believe you should be using Remote Desktop Conenction. For a Linux server, you should use SSH, e.g. Putty.

Whats mstst?

Please PM me your ticket number. I'll make sure its addressed.

I wanted to ask the same question, but thought I may look stupid I assumed it means MS Terminal Services something...

mstst is Remote Desktop Connection

After 4 hours, I finally called support... it was me.. I misread a zero as an O.

Now I'm in...
It's acting flakey, maybe....
Remoted in, and it seemed like it crashed right away, then coudn't log in again

Several minutes later, I can log in again, but RD says there's a blue screen / crash... then suddenly, I see the desktop!

hmmm, maybe it rebooted itself. time will tell.

Thanks for your offer, Kevin!

You can check the uptime to see if it rebooted or not.

Which to do that is type "Cmd" into run box and type "systeminfo" at the command prompt.

Ya'll are being way to nice to a newbie.... but I appreciate it.

Yup, it rebooted alright. But it stayed up since then

Now I'm just trying to get IIS and FTP working... IIS keeps giving 401.2 to outside, and "page cannot be found" to localhost.

Well.. of course... as I always say "It's just one little thing.... just which one of the 100,000 little things is it?

I had anonymous access turned off.

Still can't login to FTP.... got to work on that now.

Easy, download filezilla and don't use IIS FTP. It sucks anyways.

I got the IIS FTP working ok now, but I'm going to take your suggestion and look at filezilla. Thanks!

After that, the next task is mail ... any suggestions there?

Hmail

If your willing to fork the $$$
Merak

If not, HMail, no questions, however, don't let it install another MySQL instance, use your current one.

That was quick!

Well, I see Hmail can run on MySQL, which I am installing. I'll look into that some more.

Thanks!

Ok, well that was easy!!!
hMailServer installs easy, backups and restors nicely.

Though, i do have one error on backup "BACKUP ERROR: Could not delete files from the destination directory." Probably just permissions, I have to work out.

Can you tell me what web-based interface you use with hMail? I use outlook, but I have some clients that will want to use web-based.

Many people like SquirrelMail but any webmail interface that plugs into either IMAP4 or POP3 works.

I like the Horde IMP for webmail, it looks a lot better than SquirrelMail and SquirrelMail slows down like heck if you have a lot of messages (stores vars in sessions).

Again..... I appreciate everyone's help here. I really didn't expect everyone to be so helpfull, since I am obviously pretty green at this. Thanks very much, all of you!

Both SquirrelMail and Horde IMP look like they run on PHP. All my sites are on classic ASP.

I can see the train of thought though .... If I were to find something in ASP, it would probably be .NET, and I'm currently resisting that, because of perceived costs.

So, do you both suggest installing PHP, even if It's just for the web interface to email? Or would you suggest I look deeper for something else?

First off, running .Net is free. Developing in it cost money. Windows 2003 is set up out of the box to run .Net 1.1 and 1.0. You can easily install 2.0 libraries. Second, it's free to develop in .Net 2.0. Check this site out

and yess, I would install php because you will probably want to use a fair amount of php apps. I recommend you don't use the automatic install but instead use the manual method. Instructions to do so can be found on this forum.

Speaking of PHP on 2k3 Server.

Is the method mention on this site correct?
And is there any other way to interface it besides ISAPI?

Yes, you can do it in CGI mode but unless you have paid for PHP FastCGI, you would be retarded to do so.

Paid for? Isn't it Open Source?

Ok, so I've got PHP and Squirrel up and running. Wasn't too painfull actually.

The Horde IMP seemed a little more complicated to install (probably not, once you're used to it).

I'm almost there guys (can't wait to say adios to my former hoster!)

I want to give it a little more burn-in time, and do some more acid testing with the email, and backup/restores.

oh, and I have to test that Hmail script for sending email from ASP.

Thanks for all your help.

BTW, thanks for that .NET info, Rabbit. Looks like it opened up. I'll dig into that after my schedule recovers from this server build.

> Isn't it Open Source?

Open source can be free? Why wouldn't it. Most web scripts are open source by their very nature. Heck, you can even charge for GPLed software.

Ok, so why I even bothered with IIS FTP, I surely DON'T know. It was working just fine 2 days ago, I havn't touched the admin on it. And now, it no longer isolates users.

So, I installed Filezilla. And it took all of 3 minutes to figure out how to use is and set it up.

It's killer!
<-- bowing to Rabbit