My Vista (Buiness. Edition) connects to a network through a proxy
server at work. How can I set up a separate "profile" (not sure of
right term) so I can use other network settings at home (no proxy) but
not mess up my work network configuration?

I get "cache access denied" in Internet Explorer. I researched
this, but the other problems with this symptom do not appear to
apply. I think the problem is the proxy setup.

hanks, Alan

Your administrator should take care of this issue. For example he should
setup domain group policy so that the proxy settings only apply when you
logon the domain. If you do have administrator privilege, you may disable
the proxy manually or or create a batch file to make the change when you are
at home. This how to may help.

how to troubleshoot internet access issues
If you can ping the public IP and web site, make sure no proxy server
in the LAN settings to block to access the Internet. ...
http://www.howtonetworking.com/Inter...etaccessa4.htm


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Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on
http://www.ChicagoTech.net
How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on
http://www.HowToNetworking.com
"Alan" wrote in message
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My Vista (Buiness. Edition) connects to a network through a proxy
server at work. How can I set up a separate "profile" (not sure of
right term) so I can use other network settings at home (no proxy) but
not mess up my work network configuration?

I get "cache access denied" in Internet Explorer. I researched
this, but the other problems with this symptom do not appear to
apply. I think the problem is the proxy setup.

hanks, Alan

Hi
May be this can Help.
How to Configure a Laptop (or any computer) to connect to more than one
Network? http://www.ezlan.net/faq.html#fewtcp-ip
Jack (MVP-Networking).

"Alan" wrote in message
...
My Vista (Buiness. Edition) connects to a network through a proxy
server at work. How can I set up a separate "profile" (not sure of
right term) so I can use other network settings at home (no proxy) but
not mess up my work network configuration?

I get "cache access denied" in Internet Explorer. I researched
this, but the other problems with this symptom do not appear to
apply. I think the problem is the proxy setup.

hanks, Alan

May be this can Help.
How to Configure a Laptop (or any computer) to connect to more than one
Network? *http://www.ezlan.net/faq.html#fewtcp-ip
Jack (MVP-Networking).

Jack,
It was not obvious to me how to specify all the proxy, etc.
settings for the Alternate Configuration, i.e., all the settings you
can make for the primary network, TCP/IP, etc. (like proxies). Can
all that be set up?

After trying several other suggestions with no luck, I changed
Internet Explorer to turn off the use of the proxy server. Then the
Internet connection worked.

Is there any way to control all of these settings in Windows and
IE with the flip of a switch or by running a script? (This is a real
pain.)

Thanks, Alan

Hi Alan,
Copy paste this script into notepad. And then read it this put the
proxy according to the network that your connected to. put in your ip
ranges. and configure it. its commented so you could read and understad
what to do once your done save the file with the .vbs extention. you
should only click to run the file.

'Runs script on local computer.
strComputer = "."
'Specifies the beginning ip for schools network.
sIPSubnet = "10."
'Change values for proxy settings
sProxyURL = "proxy.server.address.here"
sProxyPort = "proxy.port.here"
'Finds IP addresses of all network adapters on machine and stores in
sIPAddress
Set refWMI = GetObject("WinMgmts:\\.\root\cimv2")
Set colNetworkAdapters = refWMI.ExecQuery("Select * From
Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration Where IPEnabled=True")
Set objReg = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer &
"\root\default:StdRegProv")
Set WshShell = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")

For Each oNetworkAdapter in colNetworkAdapters
If oNetworkAdapter.IPAddress(0) "0.0.0.0" Then
sIPAddress = oNetworkAdapter.IPAddress(0)
Exit For
End If
Next
'Checks to see if the IP address begins with 172.
If InStr(sIPAddress,sIPSubnet) Then
'If true then sets proxy settings specified above.
WshShell.RegWrite
"HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\In ternet
Settings\ProxyServer",sProxyURL & ":" & sProxyPort,"REG_SZ"
WshShell.RegWrite
"HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\In ternet
Settings\ProxyEnable",1,"REG_DWORD"
'If true then sets internet explorer home page to intranet site.
strKeyPath = "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main"
ValueName = "Start Page"
strValue =
"http://intranetaddress.int"
objReg.SetStringValue HKEY_CURRENT_USER, strKeyPath, ValueName,
strValue
Else
'If false then clears proxy settings flag to none.
WshShell.RegDelete
"HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\In ternet
Settings\ProxyServer"
WshShell.RegWrite
"HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\In ternet
Settings\ProxyEnable",0,"REG_DWORD"
'If false then sets internet explorer home page to external site.
strKeyPath = "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main"
ValueName = "Start Page"
strValue =
"http://externaladdress.org.uk"
objReg.SetStringValue HKEY_CURRENT_USER, strKeyPath, ValueName,
strValue
MsgBox"Internet Explorer Setting Change Completed", vbInformation,
"Complete"
End If
'Cleanup
Set refWMI = Nothing
Set colNetworkAdapters = Nothing
Set WshShell = Nothing
Const HKEY_CURRENT_USER = &H80000001


Hope this helps

Cheers !!


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