setting up kolab in a home network

Thomas Spuhler thomas at btspuhler.com
Thu Jan 26 06:05:02 CET 2006


On Tuesday 24 January 2006 08:59 pm, Alan Hartless wrote:
> Hello folks,
>
> I have searched and searched with no avail.
>
> Here's my setup and issue:
>
> I've got a home network.  I have a dynamic ip and a router.  I have an
> account set up with dyndns so I don't have to worry about the dynamic ip
> address.  I have a desktop that I'm using as my server.  Its hostname is
> "hartysdesktop." And my dyndns account is the same as
> "accountname.getmyip.com"
>
> Okay, so I have set up Kolab on my desktop.  I've tried entering many
> different things for the domain name and the mail domain.  The only time I
> can get the thing to work successfully are when I have both set to
> hartysdesktop or both set to localhost.  Any other combination (i've tried
> "accountname.getmyip.com," localhost.localdomain, hartysdesktop with
> accountname.getmyip.com as the mail domain, and others) and I get an error
> that says that the folder calendar can not be written when I try to sync my
> client (from my laptop) and that I probably don't have permissions to
> write. However, when I use hartysdesktop or localhost as the server,
> postfix will change the email addresses to "user at hartysdesktop.localhost"
> or
> "user at localhost.localhost" so I can't get my emails delivered to the kolab
> server because they all bounce.
>
> I have tried the "accountname.getmyip.com" but I guess my dsl provider or
> router will not allow it since it is originating and ending within my
> network.
>
> So I'm currently stuck.  What do I need to do to get this thing working? 
Get a static IP address and a domain name. It's not expensive. gandi.net has 
worked well for my for quite a few years. It includes DNS in the same low 
price.
The go from here.

> I've read some things about /etc/hosts but I'm not totally for sure what to
> do with it.  Currently its:
>
> 127.0.0.1 localhost hartysdesktop
>
> Hope this isn't too confusing.  Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.
>
> Night folks!
> Alan
>
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Thomas Spuhler




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