NT Question

[Martin]

Being new to NT and all, I know pretty much @#%!all about it.

My question for the day is, how do I assign the SMTP server to a domain?

I can't find this anywhere in the ~ahem~ help sections or documentation.

Thanx folks :)

[vbsquare]

Hi Martin,
Sounds like you're having fun getting things set up :)

Anyway, to set up SMTP Servers for a domain load the mmc window with IIS in it, select the appropriate server, select Default SMTP site and domains. On the right hand window right click and select New -> Domain. You can then select the Drop directory by right clicking on the new item, and selecting properties.

[Martin]

When all this set up is done, I'm gonna put up a simple guide to using NT.

I have things to put in like:
If you get error 1067 rying to run mySQL, replace the my.cnf file with one that isn't corrupt like the distribution one.

When installing PHP 4.0, I don't care if it says you can put the PHP.ini file in thed \winnt\system32 folder, you *better* put it in the plain old \winnt folder

It's been a struggle but I'm learning a lot :) Thanx for all the help :)

[vbsquare]

If you need any help on setting up DNS or anything else at all related to NT or Win 2K just let me know.

[Martin]

Now I'm tackling how to get it to resolve a name instead of an IP#.

I hope I figure this one out before I pull out all my hair.

The thing I've noticed about NT is that once you *know* how to do something, it's easy. Trying to figger it out from the documentation (or lack thereof) is a real PITA, though.

Here's another question for you, on the subject of SMTP:

How do I set up the SMTP server in the php.ini file?
if my default SMTP IP is 123.456.78.90 using port 25, how do I tell PHP that?
We don't have our SMTP named, just IP'd.

[Edited by Martin on 05-08-2000 at 07:44 PM]

[vbsquare]

OK. Load up php.ini and take a look under [mail function]
Under that heading there is a setting SMTP and by default is set to localhost. You should simply be able to change that to your IP address, although if you're running it on the same server as the SMTP server, then you can leave it as localhost.

As for the port, don't worry about that. Port 25 is default for SMTP, and PHP will know that.