Topic: Windows XP wows

[Mark Allison]

I have an XP Home system om my network.  I receive an IP thru DHCP, I can ping both inernal and external address', and name resolution is working.  But I can't surf the net with IE.  I've downloaded mozilla and it work fine.  I'm not sure what setting to look at in XP.  Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Mark

[Sterling]

Open Internet Explorer and click 'Tools' -> 'Internet Options...' and go to the 'Connections' tab. there you'll see a 'LAN Settings...' button at the bottom. Click it. In the next window that comes up make sure 'Automatically Detect Settings' is turned off. That should fix your problem.

Regards,
Sterling

Mark Allison wrote:
>
> I have an XP Home system om my network.  I receive an IP thru
> DHCP, I can ping both inernal and external address', and name
> resolution is working.  But I can't surf the net with IE.
> I've downloaded mozilla and it work fine.  I'm not sure what
> setting to look at in XP.  Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Mark

[Ray Mitchell]

Sterling wrote:
> make sure 'Automatically Detect
> Settings' is turned off.

Don't you mean turned on
ie tick the box

Regs
Ray

[Sterling]

No, I mean off... empty check box. If it's on you won't get any pages to come up in Internet Explorer behind an E-Smith box. At least this has been my experience.

Take Care,
Sterling

[Ray Mitchell]

On my XP Pro box running IE6.0 the only setting I have ticked is Auto Detect and it works fine with a v5.6 server (which supports auto detect), (also the same on my W2K boxes running IE5.5)

The poster is asking about XP Home, maybe thats's different ?
Can anyone confirm ?

Regs
Ray

[Dan]

Well I can confirm what Sterling says - autodetect off - try both - hardly time consuming.

[Sterling]

OK, I did some testing on this issue. When I have my machine's IP and DNS servers statically set it doesn't matter one way or the other if automatically detect is on or off. When I have the machine set to DHCP (which most of my client's machines are when they bring them to me for repairs) then autodetect doesn't work UNLESS you have the squid service running on the SME box. I have squid off by default. I guess the SME box auto-configures for a proxy server even if squid isn't running. This would seem to be the reason why autodetect being set to on didn't work for me when using DHCP, having Internet Explorer point to a non-running proxy server.

Regards all,
Sterling

[Guck Puppy]

Yep, that's squid's transparent proxy.

[Mark Allison]

Sterling / Dan,

Thanks! That one little change fixed all of my connectivity problems.

[Sterling]

Glad to hear it worked Mark! You're very welcome.

I'll bet that one could have the proxy.pac and wpad.dat files updated to return the correct proxy configuration depending on if squid is running or not... or maybe appear when squid starts and disappear (or be renamed) when squid stops.

I think I'll try it just for the heck of it.

Regards,
Sterling

[Gecko Dragoon]

Keep using Mozilla !