airport network question

mcrein

i have been successfully using my desktop 1.25DP as a software airport base station. i can surf the net and download files wirelessly on my TI powerbook over the airport network. however, i can't retrieve or send any email messages. neither can i access my hotmail account. it just won't log in. neither will the mail app. (i use apple's. it's always worked fine)

since i can access the net, it's not the connection. i wonder if there is something i haven't configured correctly. do i have to enable some kind of sharing on the host computer? or maybe turn off encryption? ( i have 128 bit encryption engaged on the wireless network) does anyone have any ideas?

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jmoney

Any chance you have the software firewall up? That might have an impact in the blocking out of certain things. I ran into a problem awhile back when I couldn't access yahoo mail, because the router had a certain ports blocked..

tulkas

Have you entered your domain name in the network settings? Depending how your desktop is getting it's network information, the Ti may not have the required info. are your getting an error message when you try retrieving you mail on the Ti? If on the Ti, you are entering only "mail" or "smtp" or somesuch thing for the pop3 server, and if the Ti doesn't have the fully qualified domain entered, it might be your problem. Either put in the fully qualified address for the mail server( ie mail.blah.blah.com), or enter the full domain (ie blah.blah.com) in network preferences.

mcrein

well. thanks for the software firewall tip. when i disengaged the firewall on my DP (the host computer) i was able to access and send email with the mailer app. i still however cannot access hotmail.

any ideas?

also, if i turn off the firewall, am i not exposing myself to the outside?

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elric

If you are using Safari you might have to turn off the pop-up blocker to log into hotmail.