Many, many thanks for all your help and advice in setting up my Linux proxy server. I had a parents' evening tonight which started at 6.00 pm, so I stayed after school and set about configuring squid. The main problem I had was that I didn't notice that a small part of the /etc/squid.conf was *not* commented out - glancing through the file I thought it was all commented out and the bit which wasn't dealt with access control. I was managing to access the squid proxy from another workstation, but could not get any further than an error message telling me I did not have authorisation. Once I spotted this, I had squid working within a few minutes. You know that feeling when you've cracked it - sheer elation! I shall now be looking for tweaks etc. to make the whole thing work even better!! -- Phillip Deackes Using Storm Linux