SBS 2000 Proxy Problems?

I have a SBS 2000 system with 25+ users on it. When the network was first
constructed, the opinion was that they would need to restrict the internet
connection to prevent unauthorised surfing. I personally had no part in the
construction of the network and am not too familiar with win 2k SBS. The
users all have IE setup to run through a proxy server, which is running on
the SBS. This setup has been working correctly for some time now (a year or
two). Just recently, however, the proxy started to malfunction. No one can
get e-mail (POP3), the internet is extremely slow (when it works at alll),
and it only does this when logged into the domain. If you log into any of
the computers locally and setup to run through the router, no problems.

I have gone through as many of the wizards as possible on the SBS and can't
find anything related to a Proxy server or a filter. In add/remove windows
components-Networking, the proxy (COM or DCOM was it?) isn't even installed.
I'm still new to any IIS functions, but the only thing i see in the IIS setup
is a default website (never been modified apparantly).

I can post more info if someone can tell me where I should be looking for
errors pertaining to the problem or know what could cause this or can show me
a MS document on this I would be extremely greatfull.

Marina
Tue Dec 14 15:19:17 CST 2004

Hi Jason,

Is the server and are the clients fully patched? Can you confirm that the
ipconfig/all on the clients show that everything is pointing to the server
IP? Is the Firewall Client installed on the clients and is 'Auto Discovery'
turned off?

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Regards,

Marina
Microsoft SBS-MVP

"Jason Bennett" <Jason Bennett@discussions.microsoft.com> schreef in bericht
news:0CCE75E0-72BB-4AFE-A911-3DB632B65212@microsoft.com...
> I have a SBS 2000 system with 25+ users on it. When the network was first
> constructed, the opinion was that they would need to restrict the internet
> connection to prevent unauthorised surfing. I personally had no part in
the
> construction of the network and am not too familiar with win 2k SBS. The
> users all have IE setup to run through a proxy server, which is running on
> the SBS. This setup has been working correctly for some time now (a year
or
> two). Just recently, however, the proxy started to malfunction. No one
can
> get e-mail (POP3), the internet is extremely slow (when it works at alll),
> and it only does this when logged into the domain. If you log into any of
> the computers locally and setup to run through the router, no problems.
>
> I have gone through as many of the wizards as possible on the SBS and
can't
> find anything related to a Proxy server or a filter. In add/remove
windows
> components-Networking, the proxy (COM or DCOM was it?) isn't even
installed.
> I'm still new to any IIS functions, but the only thing i see in the IIS
setup
> is a default website (never been modified apparantly).
>
> I can post more info if someone can tell me where I should be looking for
> errors pertaining to the problem or know what could cause this or can show
me
> a MS document on this I would be extremely greatfull.
>
>

Jim
Tue Dec 14 18:39:21 CST 2004

The proxy is called ISA. You can configure reports in ISA that may
tell you if any computers are contaminated and burning up internet
bandwidth. As Marina mentions and ipconfig/all from the command prompt
is a start. you can click on the blue bar and choose edit/mark and
then edit/copy to make that copy easy.

"Jason Bennett" <Jason Bennett@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I have a SBS 2000 system with 25+ users on it. When the network was first
>constructed, the opinion was that they would need to restrict the internet
>connection to prevent unauthorised surfing. I personally had no part in the
>construction of the network and am not too familiar with win 2k SBS. The
>users all have IE setup to run through a proxy server, which is running on
>the SBS. This setup has been working correctly for some time now (a year or
>two). Just recently, however, the proxy started to malfunction. No one can
>get e-mail (POP3), the internet is extremely slow (when it works at alll),
>and it only does this when logged into the domain. If you log into any of
>the computers locally and setup to run through the router, no problems.
>
>I have gone through as many of the wizards as possible on the SBS and can't
>find anything related to a Proxy server or a filter. In add/remove windows
>components-Networking, the proxy (COM or DCOM was it?) isn't even installed.
>I'm still new to any IIS functions, but the only thing i see in the IIS setup
>is a default website (never been modified apparantly).
>
>I can post more info if someone can tell me where I should be looking for
>errors pertaining to the problem or know what could cause this or can show me
>a MS document on this I would be extremely greatfull.
>

Jim B. SBS Community Member
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