[SQU] Replacing MS Proxy Server with Squid

Hi Everyone,

I intended to replace our MS Proxy Server with a Squid server. The squid
works on when being access from non-Windows 2000 workstations. However,
I have 600 Win2K workstations on campus. These cannot use Squid because
they have installed something called the "Microsoft Winsock Proxy
Client." Workstations using the MS Proxy Client simply time-out when
trying to connect to Squid. In other words, simply changing their
browsers to point at the Squid server is not sufficient, the Proxy
Client needs to be disabled on each workstation. With the Proxy client
removed (or by using a non-Win2k workstation with Netscape/IE,
everything is OK).

I can easily make all the Win2K workstations browsers point to the Squid
Server as proxy using Active Directory, but there is no way of going
around all 600 workstations and removing the MS Proxy Client.

What is making Squid incompatible with MS PC? Is there a workaround?
What does MS PC do? Effectively, Win2K workstations with MS PC installed
cannot be moved over to Squid until a workaround can be found. I'd love
to get Squid running, because MS Proxy Server has not nice features like
filtering, detailed ACLs etc...

Hope someone can help!

Thanks in advance,

Stephen.

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