On 2010-04-15 Robert Dyck wrote:
The organization I work for is wants to set up a proxy server for Windows updates. We work with older computers, XP and 2000. We have a
The setup I suggest *should* also support Win2k ok. I *think* I remember it being ok back in the day when I had customers with w2k. For sure it supports wpad.dat, so as long as it hits windowsupdate.com for updates, it should work. Even w98 may work.
server available, and a couple of us want to use Ubuntu server. The
Any distro should work fine. I prefer Fedora, but that's just me!
Trevor, you offered to send your entire squid.conf file; could I get that please?
I will email it directly. Obviously it will have to be tweaked for your site.
Also, my college suggested getting software to make the server a router, while I had considered getting a hardware router and just configuring the server as a proxy server. Any recommendations about topology or software?
All my squid caches are also routers/firewalls. Seems silly to dedicate multiple boxes to what 1 can do quite well, but that's my personal preference. All my routers/firewalls are 100% custom. If you're looking for an inexpensive turnkey and 100% managed solution, let me know as that's what my company does, we can even use your old hardware (tailored for micro and small business).