On Mon, 2002-07-08 at 23:40, Chris Barnes wrote: > for best performance you should setup the hosts on your network to receive > dhcp information from the sme server. this way your sme will send them the > default route, dns, and other info which should in theory allow them to > access the net without requiring proxy config. > > otherwise, make sure you specify your sme server as the default route on > your other hosts. > > see how that goes. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > Bill Taylor > Sent: Saturday, 6 July 2002 11:18 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [SLUG] path to sme server > > > Sme server has been up and running for several weeks, seems to work > fine; even blocks most of the pron emails in standard trim. Setup was as > simple as Jeff suggested . The laptop went straight onto the web, over > the network without any alteration, (w95, netscape) but the other boxes > (rh7.2, netscape) needed to be set up with a proxy before they could > access the web. > I have since upgraded them to 7.3, and netscape or mozilla still appear > to need proxy, although sme suggests it should be set in the preferences > as direct dial . > Should I have some form of routing set up on each box, or is the proxy > setup o.k.?
Is there a way for the browser proxy settings to be delivered automatically? This does not appear to be a dhcp thing, although it would be good if it could do it. KenF -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
