[K12OSN] DHCP

[David Trask]

First....if you can set your proxy up as a transparent proxy (it must be
located at the "choke point" of your network...right behind the router)  
this will force everyone through the proxy thus negating the need for
browser settings.  However....if you can't do that or if you use pam_auth
for the proxy....you can do something like this below....I posted this a
couple of weeks ago....

I noticed that every users profile has a file prefs.js.....so I then
searched the computer to see if there was a "master" prefs file...and
there is....in  /usr/lib/firefox-1.0.6/defaults/profile/   This is where
the initial "pull" of prefs comes from....so I simply set the proxy
settings for one user....then looked at their prefs.js file.....copied the
lines with the proxy info.....and pasted into
/usr/lib/firefox-1.0.6/defaults/profile/ prefs.js  and voila!  that is now
the default!  Yay!

Understand that the prefs file for a user is found in the users home
folder (it's hidden)

cd /home/username
ls -la

and you'll see the .mozilla folder....look in the profiles directory and
the profile for a file called prefs.js  look at it with a text editor and
you'll see the lines that apply to proxy stuff...then follow the
instructions above.  HTH!  :-)


"Support list for opensource software in schools." <k12osn at redhat.com> on
Wednesday, September 21, 2005 at 7:14 AM +0000 wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I am trying to get the internet working on my client machines. They have
>a separate proxy server set up already at 192.168.100.254:3128. My
>k12ltsp server is behind that server. If I log in as root, and set this
>in the eth1 settings, then set the proxy information in Firefox, I can
>browse the web. However, then I have to configure the proxy settings in
>Firefox for every student account. Is there any way to set this up so
>that these proxy settings are not needed? Such as, the eth1 nic gets its
>own address for the proxy server, then just forwards internet to the
>student pcs on its own? Or am I really confused.
>
>Thanks,
>Matt
>
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David N. Trask
Technology Teacher/Coordinator
Vassalboro Community School
dtrask at vcsvikings.org
(207)923-3100