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First post, by lucky7456969

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I am doing something weird again.
I am trying to install netware server on dosbox
I mount the floppy image (vhd) on drive a
and dos formatted hd on drive c

And I am getting this, why?
http://www.novell.com/documentation/korean/nw … a/hcyu0rm5.html

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Reply 3 of 8, by Dominus

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I have no idea why anyone would go through that trouble. It's not for a server to receive mail but to send mail AFAIK 😀 So if you have any mail program running and it is configured correctly, yes, of course it can receive mail. The other way round could be done via a dynamic dns like dyndns.com.

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Reply 4 of 8, by DonutKing

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You'll need a domain name with appropriate A and MX records for your mail server, at a bare minimum, to receive emails from the internet.

You can send mail without this (hell you can send email just by telnetting to port 25 on any public mail server, don't necessarily need your own server) but without your DNS records set correctly most modern systems will reject you as a spammer.

Why would you go to all the effort of setting up netware at all, let alone a version as ancient as 3? I assume you will be running an equally ancient version of Groupwise, Eudora or Pegasus?
I wouldn't put such an old version of the software on the internet, its full of bugs and vulnerabilities by now, plus you need to worry about anti virus/anti spam if you run your own mail server. At the very least make sure its not an open relay or you'll get blacklisted very quickly.

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Reply 5 of 8, by akula65

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Another issue to be concerned about is TCP/IP support. Netware 5 was the first version to offer full-blown TCP/IP support. If memory serves, TCP/IP support in Version 3 is through IPX/SPX tunneling (wrappers for the TCP/IP packets).

Reply 6 of 8, by lucky7456969

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DonutKing wrote:
You'll need a domain name with appropriate A and MX records for your mail server, at a bare minimum, to receive emails from the […]
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You'll need a domain name with appropriate A and MX records for your mail server, at a bare minimum, to receive emails from the internet.

You can send mail without this (hell you can send email just by telnetting to port 25 on any public mail server, don't necessarily need your own server) but without your DNS records set correctly most modern systems will reject you as a spammer.

Why would you go to all the effort of setting up netware at all, let alone a version as ancient as 3? I assume you will be running an equally ancient version of Groupwise, Eudora or Pegasus?
I wouldn't put such an old version of the software on the internet, its full of bugs and vulnerabilities by now, plus you need to worry about anti virus/anti spam if you run your own mail server. At the very least make sure its not an open relay or you'll get blacklisted very quickly.

Perhaps I setup on my own network with my friends only to prevent viruses, in general, it's for fun

Reply 8 of 8, by Dominus

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Unauthorized software is a no no here. You just got your next thread locked

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