Never mind. I allowed it out through the firewall temporarily, got a
relevant error code, and found the issue.

More hunting led to checking/unchecking the "Automatically detect
proxy settings" box, then closing/reopening IE, and it's fine now.

On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote:
> All,
>
> I'm trying to manually update a Win2k Server TS box (SP4 plus most
> patches), and am having a problem with it.
>
> The firewall at the edge of the network is set to deny all but the
> squid proxy, and that's the way it should be, but IE6 on this Win2k
> box will not use the proxy, even though I've set it up!
>
> I can see in the logs of the firewall that it's hitting the firewall
> instead of the squid box.
>
> I have been googling around, and see references to proxcfg.exe, but it
> doesn't exist on this machine, nor on any of the other Win2k boxes I
> have around here.
>
> Any help out there for me?
>
> Kurt
>
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