XPpro/SBS4.5 network & outlook express not working

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Greetings,
I have just replaced an old w95 machine on a small network using NT/SBS4.5 server with a new XP pro machine.
everything seems to work fine except I can't get the outlook express to work on the new XP machine.
It appears to be set up the same as the old w95 machine.
the new XP unit can access the internet through the LAN but it can't access email using the OE program.
Outlook express seems to be setup exactly as it was on the old w95 machine.
I can connnect a phone line to my XP machine's modem and connect by dail up connection and the email works fine. But when I attempt ot access the email acct. through the LAN connection it fails with the "host 'pop3.x.x.x' could not be found" message.
what am I missing that is different on the XP machine?
thanks, jan
 
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Guest

for the benefit of others...
our problem was that we didn't consider we needed to install proxy client on the XP workstation as the SBS server was using Proxy server.
hope this helps someone else.
jan
 

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