[squid-users] Squid won't talk to Windows clients

Hi,

I'm having trouble with my ISP, who use Squid. I use plan to Squid
myself, but for the moment my Windows workstations are attempting to
connect directly to my cache. I've had just about every excuse from my
ISP (from "we don't support Windows 2000" to "we don't support clients
who run token-ring" - I attach via a token-ring router to a leased-line)
but I was hoping that someone on this list my be able to give me a few
pointers. I have not made any changes on my LAN for some time so as far
as I am aware the problem is not local. The problem:

Windows clients cannot connect to the ISP Squid server((s) - I believe
they run some type of array) but non-Windows clients CAN. All
workstations are configured the same (static public IP address, gateway,
DNS) and all clients, including Windows clients, can telnet into mny
ISPs DNS server (so packets are reaching my ISP). But OS/2 and
eComstation clients, and my router itself, are the only workstations
that can use the internet via my ISPs Squid box or telnet into it.

If I use TELNET xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 8080 into my ISP, from either my router
or an OS/2 workstation, I can recieve the "open" response and I can use
the GET command to pull down a webpage. If I do this from a Windows
client, it says "Connection to host lost" after timing-out.

I've tried ruling out LAN issues by plugging my router and a windows
workstation (which has no network services apart from IP installed)
standalone together - no difference.

Neither can Windows clients connect if I attempt to connect them via an
M$ Proxy server, as I had originally some time ago, and chain the M$
Proxy server to my ISP. Internet Exploiter simply returns "Connection
timed out" after waiting for over 5 minutes.

My copy of squid (2.3STABLE4) proxy, running on OS/2 WarpServer 4.5, can
talk to my ISP no-problem, ** and windows clients do work if I configure
them to use my OS/2 squid proxy in Internet Explorer**. Stuff like WCCP
and ICP is disabled on my squid box.

Any ideas why Squid or its array would not want to talk anything
Microsoft, but anything else is OK?

Many thanks & Sorry for the long post.

Regards,
Stephen.

Steve Sharrad
Network Manager - The HENLEY College
High Performance Networking Specialist,
Systems & Automation Software Programmer
& Dell Certified Server and RAID Engineer
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Received on Tue May 01 2001 - 12:25:34 MDT