Hi, i have practically no experience with Coyote.
I´m using it to distribute the internet connection to all machines in a cyber cafe. I have my personal machine also connected to the network. All machines run Windows 98 and XP.
Everything works fine but I can´t send emails in Outlook Express from my computer. It can recieve messages without a problem but it can´t send them out. The machine and the OS configurations are OK, i´ve been using it with other internet connections and it had no problem sending outgoing emails.
Coyote´s internal ip is 192.168.0.1 and my machine ip is set to manual:

ip : 192.168.0.117
subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
gateway : 192.168.0.1

dns: 192.168.0.1

I have spanish version of windows
the description translation of the error showed in Outlook would be something like:

Server connection failed. Account: 'Account name', Server: 'mail.myserver.com.ar', Protocol: SMTP, Port: 25, Security(SSL): No, Socket error: 10051, Error number: 0x800CCC0E

I'm not even shure about what´s the problem here.
Can anyone help?

Thanx

This is the coyote linux firewall? Comes on a floppy from http://www.coyotelinux.com/ downloads page?

You say you are fine on systems which do not have the coyote firewall?

It looks like you need to allow email through coyote right?

(Is it just Outlook, or are other e-mail clients affected?)

Yes, that Coyote. It´s running from hard disk though and working great. Coyote Web Administrator 2.0 is installed.
The coyote machine recieves the internet dsl connection and distributes it to all machines.
The machines in teh cyber cafe are windows 98 and are working ok.
My computers are on windows XP. Everything works ok except this.
I've tried with Outlook and Outlook Express, and also configured machines ip both as automatic and manual with no success.

Thank you

Win98 - good greif, don't they crash a lot? (The win98 SE box sitting next to me crashes every few hours if I just leave it running...)

Anyway - this is besides the point.
http://rzero.com/coyote/faq.html

as a starting point.
I suspect it is just a matter of opening the correct ports to let e-mail through.
But do yourself and your clients a favour and don't use IE or Outlook. I think the easiest alternative is firefox and thunderbird. The windows install is easy and you'll not believe the improvement.