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don’t know if this will work, but in Workgroup manager, the Advanced tab, uncheck “allow simultaneous login on managed computers”..

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I’ll be the first to admit that what I don’t know about servers is vast. While not exactly a rookie, it has been a challenge to get Mail set up correctly. First, we were given an static residential IP address, so that caused problems, then our new IP address was on everyone’s spam list, so that took some fixing as well. And while none of this was the fault of Apple, a simple “checkIP address for issues” button may have gone a long way in my getting my problems solved more quickly.

The manuals are great when everything works correctly, and that happens more often than not. But when problems do arise… it’s good that there are sites like these, and more importantly, patient people who can help people like me troubleshoot and fix those problems. I try to do my share on the Apple boards on issues that I feel confident I can provide help with…. pay forward.. pay back.

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Well as it turns out… the problem was being caused by a bad/old mail spam service… I deleted it, updated to zen.spamhaus, and all is right with the world.

As a side note, checking the Apple Server discussion board, by far, Mail has more entries than anything else, so I pose this question.

Is it that Mail service is just plain hard to set up correctly, or is it that Apple hasn’t done the best job in making the GUI as easy to use as it should be?

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Thanks

was 65534, set to Deny in the Advanced tab of the firewall..

all is well..

thanks for the tip!

[jltnol]

Actually

I was able to fix it two ways…

In case anyone is interested here’s how:

Bascially, when you connect via VPN, all the traffic goes to the VPN server, including requests for web pages, e-mail… everything, which the VPN server doesn’t know how to handle.

To prevent this from happening, on the OSX Internet Connect app, go to Connect>Options, and UNCHECK “Send all traffic over VPN”

This will only send VPN traffic to the VPN server, and all other reqests will go thru your normal ISP.

AND, if for some reason you do want all the traffic to come thru the VPN, on the VPN server, click on Settings>Client Information, and in Netowrk Routing Definations, I have two entries:

Network Address: Network Mask
192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0, which is set to PRIVATE
0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0, which is set to PUBLIC

So now, its possible to pull web info thru the VPN if you need to/want to, and possible to get it from your local ISP, generally much faster.

Thanks for your help!

Now if only I could get the XP client to connect…..

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