"detecting proxy settings"

[tdunford]

I have a computer on a small-office network that cannot access the internet. When starting explorer, the message "detecting proxy settings" appears, but nothing else happens. the proxy settings and gateway are set the same as the others on the network (automatically detect...) the computer can ping the gateway, all systems on the network, and the internet by domain name, but cannot access the internet through explorer or netscape. I unchecked the "automatically detect" box and restared IE and the only difference was the message changed to "found page..." and then to "waiting for response" then just stopped......

Please help.

Thanks.

 

[jad]

to use the automatically detect you need to have a machine on your network called 'wpad.<domainname>' where <domainname> is the name of your domain.
and on that machine in it's web server you need to have a proxy configuration script (proxy.pac or similar) named as wpad.dat

so i'm told. I don't allow I.E. usage internally