[squid-users] Betr.: Re: [squid-users] WindowsUpdate Problems.

Hi folks,
 
> > It appears that the Windows Update V5 client (not sure about V4)
tries to
> > open a port 80 connection directly to Microsoft servers to check
for and
> > download updates, this obviously fails as the router acls drop the
packets.
>
> We had similar problems with WinXP clients trying to get updates both

> automatically and manually from Windows Update (v5, but be had
intermittent
> problems with automatic updates on win2k - v4.windowsupdate...).
Turns out
> M$ can't figure out how to implement authenticated proxy requests
from the
> client to a proxy for Windows Update. I found a M$ knowledge-base
article
> about it and the suggestion was to allow all requests to
> "*windowsupdate.microsoft.com" to be done without proxy
authentication.

There's a solution. Use the tool 'proxycfg' shipped with Windows:
 
proxycfg -u # set windowsupdate proxy to IE-proxy
proxycfg -d # reset windowsupdate proxy
 
That's it.
JdW.

 
Received on Wed Jan 19 2005 - 02:06:58 MST