What configuration is needed for Mac's to work with Proxy Server 2.0?

A. HTTP Proxy is a TCP/IP based protocol. So your machines need tohave nothing more than TCP/IP. AppleShare, and Windows Networking are a layerabove TCP/IP and proxy servers are not concerned with them.

Assuming that your Mac has TCP/IP, you need to do the followingconfiguration:

1, Your Mac must have an IP address and subnet mask that allows it to seethe proxy server. In my case my server's IP address is 10.0.0.2 (this is aIntranet address - a non translatable address not visible outside the network),and my Mac's IP addresses are like 10.0.0.* (where * can be anything in therange or 2 to 255) with subnet masks of 255.255.255.0 (so basically they cansee any machine with IP addresses in the range of 10.0.0.2 to 10.0.0.255).

There are two ways of setting the IP addresses -

* you can manually set them on each machine. This is pretty straightforward.It is done in the TCP/IP control panel. Just make sure that you do not give thesame IP address to two machines

* you can use DHCP.

In the case of DHCP, you need to have a DHCP server - you can set that up onyour NT machine too (add DHCP in Network services). With DHCP, each machinegets their IP addresses assigned by the server when they start up - insuringthat there are no clashes (duplicate IP #’s), and that each machine getsits own IP.

2, Your applications must be told where the proxy server is. This is prettymuch the same as how you would set up you apps on the PC too. Apart from thatyou don't need to set up anything else for proxy services. You will need to gointo IE and setup Proxy Settings (preferences); proxy should be Internal IPAddress of your Proxy Server. (10.0.0.2) At This point you should be able toBrowse the Internet if your Proxy is working. If not Check your socks serviceon the NT Server (proxy settings) and make sure you have set the ports to allACCESS ALLOWED. (SOCKS security) GE=0.

In control panel on the Mac under TCPIP we had to modify two network cardsin the drop down list at the top for this to work correctly. Your MAC bedifferent. We had to edit the subnet (255.255.255.0) twice in order for it tostick it kept getting erased!)

IF, however, you want to access shared volumes and printers on the NT boxfrom the Mac, you will need to set up NT Services for Macintosh (another can ofworms). But this is not needed for Proxy (internet) access.