On Monday 24 March 2008 03:05:06 Joel Jaeggli wrote: > Amos Jeffries wrote: > > ian j hart wrote: > >> On Sunday 23 March 2008 11:12:22 Amos Jeffries wrote: > >>> Tim Bates wrote: > >>>> K K wrote: > >>>>> For > >>>>> Windows/MSIE the setting can be done automatically by WPAD, DHCP, or > >>>>> GPO. For non-microsoft, this needs to be configured manually on each > >>>>> client. > >>>> > >>>> For non-MS browsers you can often still use WPAD (Firefox on Linux for > >>>> example can do that still). > >>>> You can also get a modified version of Firefox (made by FrontMotion) > >>>> that supports GPO for certain settings. > >>>> > >>>> TB > >>> > >>> The only real trouble with WPAD is that it has never been formally > >>> standardised. > >>> Microsoft products use only the 'obsolete' DHCP methods of WPAD. > >> > >> Are you sure about this? > >> > >> IIRC I'm using only DNS. Which is clunky, but it works. (XP) > > internet exploder will use dns... > > firefox won't without configuration which means effectively half your > users won't.
Half of your users maybe; not half of mine. My users get IE, like it or not. This would seem to be a good reason to avoid firefox. Shame. > > The draft expired eons ago (it was expired when I first taught how use > in a workshop in 1999) > > > I'm not 100% on anything to do with WPAD, despite a few months > > experimenting with it and various setups. > > > > I last tried it with XP and 2k running IE 5.5 SP1 and WindowsUpdate > > 3-something or MicrosoftUpdate 1-something. > > > > What versions of IE, WindowsUpdate/MicrosoftUpdate have you seen working > > with WPAD-DNS? > > > >>> Linux/Mac/*BSD products use the easier but non-official DNS methods > >>> of WPAD. > >>> > >>> So you need to configure both methods for it to work properly on the > >>> network for all clients. > >>> > >>> Amos > > > > Amos -- ian j hart
