A DESPERATE Situation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(Normal business hours are 6:30AM to 3:30PM EST. I also have voice mail.)
I figured this might be as good a place to start as any, hoping that
the same people who can help me are also listserv maintainers.
We were in the process of migration from IBM VM to Unix... I've got TCP/IP
running, and we are a bitnet site.
Now, out of the blue, I need to get SMTP running and let MAILER know there
are about 2-5 Unix boxes on the other side of my BusTech box. Everything
else will still run through the gateway at VTBIT.
It can't be all that difficult, but I have no idea where to start. The
network is something like this.
VDH ---------(RSCS)--------- VCUMVS ---------- VTBIT ------ Bitnet/Internet
º
º <------------------- This has been working for 8 years just fine ----->
º
BusTech
º
º
+----------- Unix --- "vdhsrv1" --- "oir" --- "oosrv1", etc...
<------------ This is all new. FTP, Telnet, Ping, all but mail works -->
Eventually there will be an internet connection, but not
for some time.
Currently I can "ftp vdhsrv1" and transfer files, telnet there, and anything
else I want to do. How do I get mail to go there?
The actual domain name is "vdh.state.va.us" and will SOMEDAY be on the
Internet, but for now it can be configured either way.
As I said "out of the blue" they decided they now need to have PROFS
talking to Oracle Office, and I'm to make it work by January 1. I don't
even know where to start. Surely it can't be all that hard, can it?
I want these "vdhsrv1" and other 4-5 boxes to be sort of "local" and
"everything else" to work off of VTVM1/VTBIT's SMTP server as it has
been for all this time. (The last 8 years or so.)
Virtually,
(This message does not necessarily reflect the views of my company)
Michael A. Kline, Sr. Senior Systems Engineer (804)786-1559
Va Dept of Health
1500 E Main St. Room 211-3
Richmond, Virginia 23219 (FAX: 804-786-7528)
"Users will ALWAYS want universal accessibility(Despite initial statements
to the contrary)." - TCP/IP Class...
"No excuses, just get it done. Nothing gets done sitting at the chair."
"Our customers are not an interruption of our day,
they are the reason for it."
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