Mail Services
Protocol and Port
Server and client must be communicating with the same protocol and port, otherwise, no connection can be established.
| TCP/IP |
TCP/IP is the same protocol which is used in the internet. If all computers have access to e-mail, web, ftp or other internet services, TCP/IP is installed in your network. A common problem on TCP/IP is, that ports can be blocked by firewalls, either by the internal windows firewall or by 3rd party applications, like Zone Alarm. Without configuring your firewall, no connection can be established.
TCP/IP allows a connection via the internet if the IP address of the server is known. If dynamic IPs are used, a public name server, for example www.getmyip.com can be used to assign a name to a dynamic IP address. |
| SPX |
Protocol for Novel Network. If you have problems connecting with TCP/IP, SPX can be used alternativly to establish a connection between server and client.
One advantage of SPX is, that it can not be shared in the internet, using SPX as a transport, you are sure that no Outlook data is published to the internet. |
Porteinstellungen
On both protocols, TXP and SPX, OLfolders uses the port 20002 as a default. If this port is used by other applications or blocked, any port between 1 and 65535 can be used. If the port number is empty, OLfolders uses a dynamic port, e.g. receives a free port from the system. The drawback of dynamic ports is that it can not be configured in any firwall.
The default for the client is dyamic port. The client asks the server for its port number. If more than one OLfolders server is installed at the same computer, dynamic ports can not be used.
Running multiple servers on the same machine
On terminal server, it might be useful to user more than one server at the same machine. The problem is, that only one application can be used with a given port. The trick is to use different configurations for each server.
By default. OLfolders stores its configuration in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Quester\OLWorkgroupFolders. If a file named config.ini is present in the program directory, this file contains the root key for its configuration. In order to enable multiple servers running at the same machine, create a file config.ini in the program directory and place the following text into it:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Quester\OLWServer
OLfolders will now create all of its configuration in HKEY_CURRENT_USER, e.g. for each user a different setting. Next for each user, a different port can be assigned.
Connection with SPX
In SPX the windows computer name, or more exactly, the netbios name can be used if a name service for SPX is installed, for example a Netware server is part of your network or a WINS server is running. If no name server for SPX is available, the connection can be done only by node numbers. To get a list of node numbers, enter the following command from the command line:
C:\>ipxroute config
Enable Record locking
If record locking is enable, only one user is able to receive a read-only access to objects. If for example, the same contact is opened on two workstations, only the first one will have read-write access, all other contacts will be opened in read-only mode.
Outlook still allows changing forms in read-only-mode, but at least it informs the user about the read-only-mode of an object, by writing (Read-Only) on the caption.
If recordlocking is not enabled, both receive full access to the same object, but only one user is able to save the changes, after a record has been save, all other users receive an error message on saving the same object. Outlook reports that it can not save the object, because it has been modified by somebody else. In this case the changes are lost.
If recordlocking is enabled, an attempt to save is also rejected, but Outlook allows you to save the element under a different name -- also you have the uppunity to reopen the object after it has been released by your competitor in order to modify it.
Enable mail Server
Enables the mail proxy and mail services. The mail server will be started or stopped after restart of OLWorkgroupFolders.
Allow server side PST files
If Outlook 97/98 or 2000 is used, OLWorkgroupFolders is able to keep the personal folders on the server. The MAPI spooler will take care of sending and receiving emails for all profiles.
Since Outlook XP does no longer support the MAPI spooler, this function will not work under Outlook XP
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