hi Please don't flame for this waaa~y OT question -- I'm still trying to solve my smarthost problem and was forced to use M$ outlook, I suspect is it my ISP's problem but have to prove it, anyway, long story short:
- My Linux is able to telnet to my ISP's pop3 & smtp respective ports - My Win2k (fired under WMWare) is not able to telnet to my ISP's pop3 & smtp respective ports, though it can ping them without problem. And web browsing is fine. - This seems not be the WMWare's problem, because my new grml0.8 launched within WMWare can telnet to my ISP's pop3 & smtp respective ports without problem. - I've done some homework about Win2k ports blocking, and have verified that my TCP/IP filtering & IPSec is not used. - The Win2k is out-of-box vanilla SP4, with bare minimum configuration, no firewall or anti-virus SW. It has been so long that I'm not using Windoze, I don't have a clue where to look for potential problems now, and where to go for help. If you could give me any hints, it'd be very much appreciated. thanks a lot PS. plz don't flame this poor guy in this terrible situation. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]