Before you run the PMDF-LAN configuration utility, you must have installed and configured PMDF-MTA with PMDF-LAN support. (If you have not already installed and configured PMDF-MTA, see Chapter 1 through Chapter 5.)

The PMDF-LAN configuration utility prompts you for several pieces of information. For some of the questions, the configuration utility provides reasonable default values. For other questions, you will need some knowledge of the PC-LAN setup at your site. Knowing the correct values for these questions usually requires that you coordinate with the PC-LAN management at your site. If that person is not you, check with them to find out the current values. Also impress upon the PC-LAN management that any future changes in these values will need to be coordinated with you. Unilateral changes in the PC-LAN setup will break the mail gateway.

PMDF-LAN configuration questions include the following:

• Which channels you want to configure (for example, cc:Mail, Lotus Notes, Microsoft Mail, WordPerfect Office (GroupWise), or Novell MHS).
• Names that the PC mail system already has (for example, domain name for Lotus Notes, network and post office names for Microsoft Mail, domain and post office names for WordPerfect Office, or workgroup name for MHS-based systems).

If you are configuring a cc:Mail, Microsoft Mail, WordPerfect Office (GroupWise), or Novell MHS channel (or some group of these), there are some additional questions you will be asked, including:

• The name of the directory (or directories) that will be used as the file drop off spot on the PMDF system. This directory will contain message files that are:
  • Destined for the PC-LAN system.
  • Inbound from the PC-LAN system.
  You might want to refer to the initial sections of the PMDF-LAN chapter of the PMDF System Manager's Guide for a description of several possible approaches.

  Note If you will be using file serving software for the PMDF system to store the PC-LAN mail system files on your PMDF disk, then it is a good idea to use a directory outside of the PMDF directory structure for the PC-LAN message files. This not only allows the optimal use of file protections, but it also avoids conflicts with PMDF's own directory structure.

  
  If you are configuring a Lotus Notes channel, you will be asked additional questions, including:
  • The two port numbers where the PMDF Service Dispatcher will listen for communications from the PMDF Notes Gateway Service Add-ins. These numbers must match the PMDF Notes Gateway Service Add-ins that are in the Lotus Notes server initialization file.
  • The IP address of the Lotus Notes server.

6.1.1 Selecting Pseudo Domain Names

Your PMDF system has a name associated with it. In addition, PC-LAN mail systems often have their own internal name for the post office, and the network, domain, or workgroup to which they belong. If your PC mail system is located on a server, that server could have a name. Some combination of these names is appropriate.

Consider the following possible scenario:

• Your PMDF system is naples.example.com.
• Your WordPerfect Office (GroupWise) post office considers itself to be the HQ postoffice in the EXAMPLE WordPerfect Office domain.
• The post office files are stored on a Novell file server named WIDGETS.

Reasonable possibilities for the name of the pseudo domain associated with that WordPerfect Office post office could be one of the following:

• wpo.example.com
• wpo.naples.example.com
• wpo.widgets.example.com
• hq.naples.example.com
• hq.example.example.com
• hq.widgets.example.com

The best choice for your particular site could depend on some of the following factors:

• Whether you have (or anticipate having) multiple WordPerfect Office post offices.
• Whether you expect the post offices to be located on the same server.
• Whether such servers will be accessed from the same PMDF system, or from multiple systems.
• Whether the important distinguishing feature of these users is that they are WordPerfect Office users, or they are HQ users.