Dial-up Connection - Local
Net has DNS system
Your server and your network will be set up with
a Dial-up connection to the Internet. You wish to
have the DNS system on your local network.
AppleShare IP comes with MacDNS to provide this DNS
service. For best performance, install MacDNS onto
its own computer. You don't need the latest
computer to run MacDNS: depending on your network
use, anything from a Mac IIci to a Quadra 700 would
be perfectly adequate.
The most effective setup for a network connected
to the Internet via a Dial-up connection is to use
a gateway device that dials into your Internet
Service Provider. This device can be anything from
an ISDN router to a computer set up with gateway
software. An example of software that allows a
computer to act as a gateway is Vicom's IP Gateway.
An example of a hardware router is a Netopia ISDN
router.
Keep in mind that with this type of setup, a
Dial-up gateway that acts as a proxy server may not
allow external clients access to your local
AppleShare IP servers. If access is allowed, any
client outside your local network will only be able
to access your AppleShare IP server when Dial-up
connection to ISP is up and running.
You will need to request from your ISP the
following information:
- ISP to enter your Domain name (i.e.
mybusiness.com) in their DNS system along with
public Host names for other local servers (i.e.
www.mybusiness.com and
accounting.mybusiness.com.) Notify your ISP that
you will maintain control of the DNS entries.
Note: The ISP may have to register your
company's domain name for a fee.
- IP addresses assigned to your Internet
gateway, Web, FTP, and/or Mail servers. Internet
gateway requires a static IP address.
Follow these steps to correctly set up your
AppleShare IP server:
- Prepare your computer as detailed in Chapter
1 of AppleShare IP Getting Started manual.
- Configure the TCP/IP control panel of the
AppleShare IP server with assigned static IP
address as well as IP address for local
network's IP gateway or router in the "Router
address" field. Enter local DNS server name
first with secondary as ISP DNS server.
- Install AppleShare IP as instructed Chapter
2 of AppleShare IP Getting Started manual for
Custom Setup.
- In the AppleShare IP Easy Setup program,
choose "Custom" setup when prompted at the
"Choose a Network Type" screen.
- AppleShare IP Easy Setup will also assist
you in setting up MacDNS for domain name
services. For more info on MacDNS, check the
MacDNS manual in the MacDNS folder on your
computer.
Once you have followed and completed the
installation instructions in the Getting Started
manual, your AppleShare IP server should be ready
for service.
If you use AppleShare IP Mail server on local
network but send/receive mail from a remote server,
you have to set your Mail Server up to use ETRN for
remote SMTP mail polling.
- Ask your ISP to set themselves up as a
"backup" mail server to your domain name of
"mybusiness.com". They'll need to modify the
MX-List for "mybusiness.com".
- Ask your ISP for the name of the mail server
which they have specified as a backup for your
mail server (i.e."mail.myisp.com" )
- In AppleShare IP Mail Admin, create a new
Host entry. Highlight it and select button to
Edit Host. Click the Schedule tab and do the
following:
- From the pop-up menu select "Set Allowed
Connection Times"
- Setup a schedule of allowed connection
times on the 7 day 24 hour panel. Green means
allowed to connect at that time, grey means
do not connect at that time.
- Click the "Remote Mail Polling (ETRN)"
checkbox.
Please see AppleShare IP Help manual for
additional Mail Server configuration information as
well as Troubleshooting suggestions.
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