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 server available, and a couple of us want to use Ubuntu server. The individual who suggested a proxy server also suggested Squid. Great ideas. Do you have any recommendations to setup Squid for Windows 2000 and version of IE that will run on it?
Trevor, you offered to send your entire squid.conf file; could I get that please?
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?
Thanks, Rob Dyck
Ps. I'm the guy who was trying to set up a server using CRUX. The problem was an error message "Spurious ACK on isa0060/serio0. Some program might be trying access hardware directly" causing the kernel to panic trap. Never was able to get past that. So I gave up, instead installed Ubuntu 9.10 server. It was smooth; from start of download to complete up-and-running system was a single day.