Smoothwall Network Guardian Negatives?

[rob_f]

If you're using proxy.pac files/auto-dectection you may get occasional issues with IE cached proxy results (i.e. it thought the proxy wasn't there for a second, so it decided not to use it again).

 

https://support.smoothwall.net/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=viewarticle&kbarticleid=263 is your friend - specifically the GPO User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Internet Explorer\Disable caching of Auto-Proxy scripts.

[whoopus]

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! This one has really been killing me. I saw your post when you made it, but then got distracted with other issues and forgot about the fix. I then rolled out 210 student laptops and it has been a complete nightmare for the past three weeks. Changing to persistent connections and transparent proxy fixed the gmail attachment issue (not sure which one actually did it), but we still fought with the "this page cannot be displayed" errors. I stumbled across your post again today, gave it a try and haven't had a problem yet!!! I am pushing it out to all users this weekend.

 

Many thanks!

Mark

 

If you're using proxy.pac files/auto-dectection you may get occasional issues with IE cached proxy results (i.e. it thought the proxy wasn't there for a second, so it decided not to use it again).

 

https://support.smoothwall.net/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=viewarticle&kbarticleid=263 is your friend - specifically the GPO User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Internet Explorer\Disable caching of Auto-Proxy scripts.