OSX and Exchange 2000

[Mark N.]

I also have this posted in microsoft.public.macintosh.general.....

Okay, I've recently started to migrate my Exchange 5.5 server to a new
Exchange 2000 server in the same site. When I move a mailbox to the new
server, my PCs and Macs with OS9 can all see and connect to the new box.
But my OSX machines can't connect to their mailboxes on the new server.
Outlook 2001 on all Macs here..

I have some power users with a PC, an OS9 Mac and an OSX Mac - all three
machines have Outlook installed. Moving their mailbox to the Exchange 2000
server only affects the OSX machine. Initially, the name could not be
resolved, but we put the IP of the active directory server on the OSX
machine and that takes us to an error stating that it can't open the
mailbox. The mailbox can be resolved, mind you (doing a "check" underlines
the mailbox), but it just can't open the mailbox.

Anybody else have to wade through a similar situation?

Thanks,
Mark

 

[Anil]

Are you mentioning the right host name of exchange server (or correct IP
address and DNS address) in system preferences on Mac OS
--anil

 

[Jim]

Mark,

Exchange 2000 is an AD product and requires DNS resolution from a
server that is part of the AD structure. OSX machines also rely on DNS
heavily. The OSX clients and the Exchange server should both be
pointing to the same DNS server.

Another thing to look at would be the user rights on the AD account
and the e-mail account making sure that the OSX user is loging in with
the same user account as the PC and the OS 9 Mac. You might try the
username in domain\username format.

Can the OSX client access an OWA session and open the mailbox?

- Jim

 

[Mark N.]

Are you mentioning the right host name of exchange server (or correct IP

address and DNS address) in system preferences on Mac OS
--anil

Yes... I've double-checked that...

Mark :-(

 

[Mark N.]

Mark,

Exchange 2000 is an AD product and requires DNS resolution from a
server that is part of the AD structure. OSX machines also rely on DNS
heavily. The OSX clients and the Exchange server should both be
pointing to the same DNS server.

Another thing to look at would be the user rights on the AD account
and the e-mail account making sure that the OSX user is loging in with
the same user account as the PC and the OS 9 Mac. You might try the
username in domain\username format.

Can the OSX client access an OWA session and open the mailbox?

- Jim

The DNS part is right. The one thing I'm suspecting is that the duplicate,
inactive accounts that my ADC created may be causing problems. I was afraid
to run the AD cleaup wizard until I figured some of this out, but I did run
it on one account. I also put a hosts file on that accout, as per a tip I
found on the Apple website. So far, I'm connecting to the Exchange 2000
server, but it's only been a few hours and the last time I tried this, it
worked for several hours and then shut me out. So I'll be waiting to see if
I can still get in tomorrow...

Thanks,
Mark