Topic: No external proxy screen on SME 7

[philipbrooke]

Hi All

Fairly new to sme, I manage a school network and have used sme6 in the past as the schools proxy server. Our schools internet connection is supplied by our local authority, in order to connect to the net we must go out via there proxy server so in effect the sme server is sat behind a firewall.
In the past with sme6 this has not been a problem as you can set an external proxy and port in the console setup wizard, I assumed it would be the same in sme7 but the screen does not seem to be available.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[raem]

philipbrooke

Search the forums, I think Charlie Brady posted an answer to this a month or two ago.
Is this what you are after ?

You can set it from the command line.

config set SquidParent a.b.c.d
config set SquidParentPort nn
signal-event post-upgrade
signal-event reboot

[The SquidParentPort setting is optional if the upstream proxy is on port 3128.]

[philipbrooke]

Thanks for the tip ray, I found the post and my problem is sorted. If anyone else has the same problem check out this post http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=32998.msg149313#msg149313

Thanks

[proby]

hi, i am in the same boat as the chap who made this post i have read through all of the following. All i would like to clear up is this

config set SquidParent a.b.c.d
config set SquidParentPort nn
signal-event post-upgrade
signal-event reboot

config set SquidParent a.b.c.d = does this mean that a.b.c.d in my case would ip of external proxy

and

config set SquidParentPort nn = and nn is the proxy port eg 8080

Everythin else is fine on my network i can ping council servers / machines and server on my network i just wasnt passing out to the internet

Also on sme server 6 i could also choose between auto and login. On 7 i just get the login prompt is there also a way to solve this because at times i find the gui usefull for members of my team who arnt clued up on linux

Thanks in advance!

[bpivk]

config set SquidParent a.b.c.d = does this mean that a.b.c.d in my case would ip of external proxy

and

config set SquidParentPort nn = and nn is the proxy port eg 8080

You're correct.