automatic web proxy

[mwgrenier]

I'm running 45 knoppix PCs each booting off the CDROM. I have one other PC on the network which is a hard disk installation of KNOPPIX using the debian installer method. It hosts the DHCPD server.

I'd like the 45 PCs to pick up the web proxy configuration automatically from the DHCP server. Is there a way to add this to my dhcpd.conf file such that the client PCs can pick this up. If not, any other recommendations other than manually having each user enter it for every session?

-Mike mwgrenier@yahoo.com

[UnderScore]

Have you looked into WPAD (http://www.google.com/search?q=wpad&sourceid=firefox&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8)? I remember reading that MS IE in Windows can be set to do a DNS lookup of wpad.yourdomain.com and have that configure the browser for proxy access.

I hope this helps.

James

[Stephen]

I'm running 45 knoppix PCs each booting off the CDROM. I have one other PC on the network which is a hard disk installation of KNOPPIX using the debian installer method. It hosts the DHCPD server.

I'd like the 45 PCs to pick up the web proxy configuration automatically from the DHCP server. Is there a way to add this to my dhcpd.conf file such that the client PCs can pick this up. If not, any other recommendations other than manually having each user enter it for every session?

-Mike mwgrenier@yahoo.com

Have you thought of trying the saving config to floppy option and having the users boot with knoppix floppyconf then it should be picked up every time.

Note the floppyconf maybe wrong by now they have changed it too many times for me to be positive you may want to check on that.

[mwgrenier]

Regarding WPAD, I forgot to mention that all of the 45 PCs are running Knoppix. Since everyone runs off the same Knoppix image, I thought that someone might have already addressed this issue - namely, does Knoppix have any way to detect and automagically configure to use a web proxy.

I was trying to avoid remastering or having to teach all of the users how to use the different boot options (MOTTO - KEEP IT SIMPLE FOR THE USER) or how to have people go into the advanced tab of Mozilla configuration screens to manually set it on each boot.

THanks,
-Mike

[shah]

You could try squid : apt-get install squid
Read this how to first:
http://www.siliconvalleyccie.com/linux-adv/squid.htm
http://www.debiansec.com/linux/services/webproxy.html

[mwgrenier]

I'm confused. How does Squid help?
The problem is automatically configuring the browser to use any proxy. Microsoft IE seems smart enough to work with the WPAD but apparently no Linux based browser seems to do this.