August 2000 - openSUSE Edu - openSUSE Mailing Lists

RE: Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Squid
by Paul Taylor 29 Aug '00

29 Aug '00

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(a)ntlworld.com> >From: "Richard Naylor" <ranaylor(a)ntlworld.com> >To: <suse-linux-uk-schools(a)suse.com> >Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 20:15:10 +0100 >Subject: Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Squid > > >> 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. ------------------------------------------------------------ Free email: http://BeMail.org/ Free BeOS: http://free.be.com/

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calamari
by Paul Taylor 29 Aug '00

29 Aug '00

I am back at school now and since you are reading this it means that I have squid up and running. At the school we have 2 64K ISDN lines and we are going through DialNet, although I am using Squid to control the access and set up a cache which seems like an expensive enterprise under NT. Since I got the proxy up and running, one of the ISDN lines has gone off-line. I have not been able to get through to BT to find out the problem but was curious if I need to resolve both lines to the IP address I am with DialNet? Since I am using only one of the IP addresses they gave me, perhaps the other one has shut down? Excuse my ignornace, the IT manager is on holiday and I am a lowly IT teacher just trying to make things better... The other thing I would like to do is to set up another SuSE proxy in my own classroom so that I can deny all the computers in the room access to the net when I am trying to teach. Any ideas? Paul ------------------------------------------------------------ Free email: http://BeMail.org/ Free BeOS: http://free.be.com/

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RE: Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Squid
by Paul Taylor 29 Aug '00

29 Aug '00

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(a)ntlworld.com> >From: "Richard Naylor" <ranaylor(a)ntlworld.com> >To: <suse-linux-uk-schools(a)suse.com> >Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 20:15:10 +0100 >Subject: Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Squid > > >> 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. ------------------------------------------------------------ Free email: http://BeMail.org/ Free BeOS: http://free.be.com/

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RE: Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Squid
by Paul Taylor 29 Aug '00

29 Aug '00

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(a)ntlworld.com> >From: "Richard Naylor" <ranaylor(a)ntlworld.com> >To: <suse-linux-uk-schools(a)suse.com> >Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 20:15:10 +0100 >Subject: Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Squid > > >> 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. ------------------------------------------------------------ Free email: http://BeMail.org/ Free BeOS: http://free.be.com/

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squidly-didly
by Paul Taylor 27 Aug '00

27 Aug '00

I did manage to get squid working in the end and it was working rather well. I had to leave school after that so will not see until Tuesday how it is fairing but thanks for all the help to date. I now need to read up a bit on tweaking it and adjusting some of the access priviledges and caching functions. It is all quite new to me but mans and faqs will help out. I suspect that I will be steering the school more into the good ship Linux especially since the new Star Office seems quite robust. Any more squid top tips greatly appreciated and I will feedback any worthwhile discoveries. Paul ------------------------------------------------------------ Free email: http://BeMail.org/ Free BeOS: http://free.be.com/

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server won't serve
by Dave Williams 27 Aug '00

27 Aug '00

I've set up a SuSE based fileserver to replace an older RedHat 5.1 server. I brought both servers home so that I could transfer the users data but on starting the old RedHat server I've discovered that it will not allow me to connect from another machine. The lights on the NIC go out when it reaches runlevel 2 or 3 and an error message along the lines - cannot open http port - FATAL - crops up when samba is started. I can ping 127.0.0.1 ok and ifconfig reports eth0 as ok. Anyone any ideas where I should start looking for the cause of the problem. Dave Williams

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Free Software and SuSE 7
by Alan Harris 24 Aug '00

24 Aug '00

Hi Roger and all, I've just got a copy of the October PCPlus, they've got Windoze and Linux versions of StarOffice 5.2 on the cover cd's, also Samba and MySQL. Will the SuSE Release 7 have the latest versions of the PostgreSQL SQL Database server (7.xx I believe) on them ? Alan Harris Network Manager Bryngwyn School alanh(a)bryngwyn.carmarthen.sch.uk

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Test: Please ignore.
by Christopher Mahmood 24 Aug '00

24 Aug '00

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Squid
by Paul Taylor 23 Aug '00

23 Aug '00

Dear all: 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. ------------------------------------------------------------ Free email: http://BeMail.org/ Free BeOS: http://free.be.com/

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Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Squid
by James Ogley 22 Aug '00

22 Aug '00

Hi, Have you made sure that the Win box is trying to access the right port on the Squid box? The default is 3128, but this and other settings can be changed in /etc/squid.conf James > 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. -- James Ogley, Network Manager, SuSE Linux Ltd - +44 (0) 20 8 387 4088 @ Work: ogley(a)suse.co.uk http://www.suse.co.uk @ Home: james(a)rubberturnip.org.uk http://www.rubberturnip.org.uk @ Mobile: riggwelter(a)sms.genie.co.uk ICQ: 57374251 Slashdot: riggwelter (84180) asylum-mud.org: Riggwelter "Jesus, Jesus, Friend for ever." - Deliriou5?

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