I am paranoid now. Should I disable the "allow all" in the config file? I will read up on acls this week but I want to have a working proxy for the beginning of school which seems to be the case with a basic squid.conf.

Reply-To: "Richard Naylor" <ranaylor@ntlworld.com> From: "Richard Naylor" <ranaylor@ntlworld.com> To: <suse-linux-uk-schools@suse.com> Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 20:15:10 +0100 Subject: Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Squid

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I am in the process of trying to set up a new proxy server for the school using SuSE 6.4. The machine is a PIII 550 with 128 MB RAM and an 8G drive. We have NT as the main server but I am trying to replace an existing NT proxy using OSS with SuSE/Squid. I have the machine configured and it is going out through our dialnet hardware server but the local Win95 machines get an error message saying that access is denied to Squid. My colleague is looking for a free Windows proxy so the race is on... Any help would be appreciated.

make sure that the default setting of

http_access deny all

still isnt set :) if it is then you need to read up on acls. but for testing purposes you could very quickley change to http_access allow all, but i wouldnt recommend this for permanent use.

oh and all ways remember to do a squid -k reconfigure after editing squid.conf. hth.

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