Newbie to networking

[Caroline_5]

Can I pick you brains please about having a separate mail server. Our current server is being over worked and MDaemon keeps crashing. I have to reboot the server at least twice a day. It has a larger DB being accessed all day long, and runs the MDaemon and Internet connections.

I have been asked by my boss, to move the Internet and email over to a separate mail server running Windows 95. The main server which is running everything at the moment is WinNT4 O/S. I have a feeling Windows 95 might cause me some problems.

My only question is, is the linking of the 2 serverss easy to do? I'm concerned about starting a project which might fall over, and I daren't loose the email! It's the linking of the two servers I need advice on.
Thanks for any advice

Caroline

[Wodisch]

Hi Caroline,

you will not get too many answers here, as this is the HP-UX part of the forums (and there might be one or two of us, who do not like MS Windows that much ;-)...

I would recommend to post your question in the Microsoft part of the forums:
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/FamilyHome/1,,116,00.html

or even in the Microsoft networking area:
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/CategoryHome/1,,239,00.html

And please tell them:
- your Windows ServicePack level
- the eMail server product and version
- the eMail client product and version
- the database product and version
- the DNS configuration

so that they can answer.

HTH,
Wodisch

[John Dvorchak]

I know that I may sound like a UNIX biggot, but my advise is to NEVER use any MS Windows product except Winnt Server or Windows 2000 for a production server. Window 95 is not only obsolete, it was never indended to perform a server function. It's inherent instability is a sure path to failure. If you must go cheap then look at putting LINUX on the PC you were going to use for Win95/email. You will then have a fighting chance. Or since you know something about Winnt, why don't you just move email to another NT server. Still not a secure choice for an Internet server. MS products are wrought with security holes and in my opinion should NEVER, repeate NEVER be put on the Internet unless from behind a firewall that support a DMZ to place the server in. And then only if you keep the service packs up to date to fix the IIS problems that seem to occur daily.

Just my two cents worth. You can take it for what it is worth but I was the Lead Lan Support analyst for a company and was responsible for putting us on the Internet. I chose a UNIX box to perform web and email functions behind a firewall, and left the Winnt servers serve the local LAN.