NRR: Computer GURU help needed: IP address and exchange server

Any help out there?

Are you positive that you can browse the internet from home? Try going to a site you normally dont visit to see if that works.

A 192.162.x.x address is uncommon, but shouldnt be your problem. If you are prompted with the username and password field, it sounds like the connection to the exchange server is working.

Try entering your username with the companie's domain first. Your IT guy should have your domain name. For example.

Username: letsrun\hawksrunner01

Password: password

I have a few clients that are setup this way for a further step of authentication. Give that a try.

will tell you your true external IP address. The 192.168.x.x is your internal one.

Are you accessing Exchange with HTTP over RPC? Can you access email thru OWA?

Does your company have encryption setup or perhaps a VPN that you may need to login to in order to access the company's resources?

JPL wrote:

The IT guys at work are mystified.

There's a surprise.

There is supposed to be a slash between letsrun and hawksrunner01. Dont know why it didnt post. This kind of slash "\".

Thanks, guys.

I do enter a domain before the user ID (with eh appropriate slash). I access the exchange web page through a normal HTTP browser (I've tried both Firefox and IE). Each time, I get through to my job's server (because I get the password authentication box) but after I enter the correct user ID and password the box vanishes and it immediately says it cannot find the server at the correct address.

Again what is strange is when I bring this exact same laptop to my job and open up IE or Firefox I can access exchange through the web with no problem.

I don't know what RPC or OWA are so maybe some more advice along those lines will help.

Also, when I am at work, each time I try to log on through the web I have to enter my user ID and Password twice..every time. Even when I am certain i enter properly I always have a new authentication box open up and it always works the second time.

Thanks for the help so far.

The php for the forum is configured to strip them via Magicquotes. Didn't used to be. Modified March this year. Seems like someone is tweaking the boards lately.

You should be scared at the things you can find on the internet without any effort!

What sort of security do you have enabled on the wireless router? Seems like you might have some ports closed locally that you can access within the LAN.

I have WPA-PSK (TKIP). But when I simply plug my DSL line directly into my laptop to remove the wireless from the chain I still have the same problem.

will wrote:

What sort of security do you have enabled on the wireless router? Seems like you might have some ports closed locally that you can access within the LAN.

do you have an account with experts-exchange? its well worth the cash if you have more than 2 or 3 issues a year

If you can access the net and you've tried the 198.162.x.x ip address, I also presume you've tried to RDP into the machine. Do they have the telnet port open on the network? If so, can you gain access via telnet?

Who set up the 198.162.x.x address? Also, have you tried 192.168.x.x like you originally asked? That's normally the first portion of a loopback address that might be filtered via the subnet when you're in the LAN. As someone else mentioned before 192.162.x.x is a weird address, but not impossible. Just seems way to unlikely a dyslexic entry of 192.168 to me.

Here's the entire 198.162 block list.

http://www.flumps.org/ip/c/198/198_162.html

And the 192 block list - really unlike block.

http://www.flumps.org/ip/c/192/192.html

If you don't recognize your company domain on there, you might be at the root of the problem.