Re: [WinMac] Mac's using MS Proxy 2.0 for internet access

Tim Scoff(casper[at]nb.net)
Tue, 12 Oct 1999 01:25:18 -0400

>Hi Colin,
>
>We had a similar problem, I couldn't figure out how to get around
>it. As an interim solution, I pointed our 60 or so macs at our Web*
>server for proxy. It has really worked so well that I haven't
>goofed with them anymore. Hasn't bogged down our server at all.
> Don't know if that's an option for you but if you're running web*
>v3 or above, HTTP proxy in included.
>
>Tim,
>
>At some point I was really hoping to point our users back to our MS
>proxy figuring that I'd screwed something up in the config. There's
>really no workaround for this (or any planned one)? If not, at
>least I feel good that I didn't spend more time trying to get it to
>work... :-)

        Unfortunately the only work arounds consist of turning a lot
of the security off so that Everyone can use the Proxy Server without
any authentication.
        That still doesn't solve the problem with protocols other
than http, ftp, and gopher through the Proxy Server if the program
that you're running doesn't support SOCKS proxies. Most mail
programs, for example, won't work through MS Proxy Server from the
Macintosh.

>Thanks,
>Mark Maytum
>Pompanoosuc Mills Corporation
>
>
>Tim Scoff <casper@nb.net>
>Sent by: winmac-errors@lists.best.com
>
>10/11/99 05:33 AM
>Please respond to winmac
>
> To: winmac@lists.best.com
> cc:
> Subject: Re: [WinMac] Mac's using MS Proxy 2.0 for
>internet access
>
> Unfortunately for MS Proxy Server my only suggestion is to
>replace it with a non Microsoft product. MS Proxy Server 2.0 is a
>wonderful solution in a PC only environment. In a cross platform
>environment problems such as the one that you pointed out pop up on a
>far too regular basis.
>
> >I have a medium sized network with a mixture of Mac's and PC's. All the PC's
> >and the servers are running NT4 and my Proxy Server is MS Proxy 2.0. The
> >PC's work very well with the proxy, but the Macs have a tendency to
> >repeatedly ask the user for their NT password whilst surfing the web. I
> >thought that the Macs should only ask for the password once, at the start of
> >the session. Has any one got any ideas?
> >
> >

Tim Scoff, MCSE
casper@nb.net
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