I'd much rather delete the file and append the setting that just overwrite the file... the file does change with newer versions of Firefox.
But that's me. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District ----- Original Message ----- From: Carl Houseman [mailto:c.house...@gmail.com] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysad...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 14:12:29 -0800 Subject: RE: Further WPAD issue - not DNS... > The file is the same on every workstation, right? > Just drop it in netlogon and copy it from there. > > Carl > > -----Original Message----- > From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:mr...@ephrataschools.org] > Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 5:12 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Further WPAD issue - not DNS... > > Yes, but I'm not very good at making scripts... At least not on Windows. > > Is there an equivalent to 'sed' for Windows? I need to delete that line, > then append the correct setting to the end of the file. > > > --Matt Ross > Ephrata School District > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Don Ely [mailto:don....@gmail.com] > To: > NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysad...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] > Sent: > Wed, 30 Dec 2009 14:01:17 -0800 > Subject: Re: Further WPAD issue - not > DNS... > > > > GPO/startup or login script > > > > On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Matthew W. Ross > > <mr...@ephrataschools.org>wrote: > > > > > WPAD does work with firefox... If you select the "Automatically detect > > > proxy" setting in the proxy configuration. > > > > > > To do this, You must edit the %programfiles%\Mozilla > > > Firefox\greprefs\all.js file, and change the following line: > > > > > > pref("network.proxy.type", 0); > > > > > > ... to ... > > > > > > pref("network.proxy.type", 4); > > > > > > I just need a clean and easy way to do this for all computers in our > > > domain. Can anybody help with that? > > > > > > > > > --Matt Ross > > > Ephrata School District > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: Kurt Buff > > > [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] > > > To: NT System Admin Issues > > > [mailto:ntsysad...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] > > > Sent: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 > > > 13:16:17 -0800 > > > Subject: Further WPAD issue - not DNS... > > > > > > > > > > So, I've got the US office working - now I had to consider our foreign > > > > offices. > > > > > > > > The AU office has a proxy of its own, but the UK office doesn't have a > > > > proxy server. > > > > > > > > I can configure DHCP in each office to point IE to another web site, > > > > each for a wpad.dat of their own, for each office, but that doesn't > > > > help with FireFox, which is in widespread use. > > > > > > > > Anyone run into this? Any ideas on how to solve it? I've been > > > > googling, and not finding any real answers to this. > > > > > > > > Kurt > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > > > > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > > > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
