...provided the file is identical across all machines... or you can
generate the unique needed one based on something like machine name.

 

-sc

 

From: Don Ely [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 5:01 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Further WPAD issue - not DNS...

 

GPO/startup or login script

On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Matthew W. Ross
<[email protected]> wrote:

WPAD does work with firefox... If you select the "Automatically detect
proxy" setting in the proxy configuration.

To do this, You must edit the %programfiles%\Mozilla
Firefox\greprefs\all.js file, and change the following line:

pref("network.proxy.type", 0);

... to ...

pref("network.proxy.type", 4);

I just need a clean and easy way to do this for all computers in our
domain. Can anybody help with that?


--Matt Ross
Ephrata School District



----- Original Message -----
From: Kurt Buff
[mailto:[email protected]]
To: NT System Admin Issues
[mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wed, 30 Dec 2009
13:16:17 -0800
Subject: Further WPAD issue - not DNS...


> So, I've got the US office working - now I had to consider our foreign
> offices.
>
> The AU office has a proxy of its own, but the UK office doesn't have a
> proxy server.
>
> I can configure DHCP in each office to point IE to another web site,
> each for a wpad.dat of their own, for each office, but that doesn't
> help with FireFox, which is in widespread use.
>
> Anyone run into this? Any ideas on how to solve it? I've been
> googling, and not finding any real answers to this.
>
> Kurt
>
> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/>  ~
>

~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/>  ~

 

 

 

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