Configuring your users browsers.

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• Configuring your users browsers.
• PRACTICAL EXERCISE - 1
• We assume here that your LOCAL CACHE has been
  previously configured to peer with the JWCS.
• Advice on configuring your local cache to use the
  JWCS with MS Proxy and Squid is available from
  the JWCS

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• Configuring your users browsers. Internet
  Explorer
• PRACTICAL EXERCISE - 1
• You could either choose to have your systems
  people configure all your browsers, or get the
  users to amend the settings themselves in
  someway.
• Open Internet Explorer
• Go to the Tools menu.
• Select Internet Options

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• Configuring your users browsers. Internet
  Explorer
• PRACTICAL EXERCISE - 1
• Select the Connections tab.
• You will now have a menu
• which looks like this
• Press the LAN Settings
• button.

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• Configuring your users browsers. Internet
  Explorer
• PRACTICAL EXERCISE - 1
• See the LAN Settings menu as below.
• Tick either the Automatically
• Detect Settings or Use automatic
• Configuration script boxes.
• FOR FURTHER ADVICE
• REGARDINGTHESE SETTINGS
• PLEASE CONTACT THE JWCS.
• Tick the Use a Proxy Server
• box.

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• Configuring your users browsers. Internet
  Explorer
• PRACTICAL EXERCISE - 1
• Still in the LAN Settings menu,
• DO NOT tick the Bypass Proxy
• for local addresses box. We will enter
• those details somewhere else.
• Enter your proxy server address
• and port number in the address and
• port fields under the Use Proxy Server box.
• Press the Advanced button.

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• Configuring your users browsers. Internet
  Explorer
• PRACTICAL EXERCISE - 1
• Tick the use same proxy server
• for all protocols box.
• In the Exceptions field, enter
• your local addresses which should
• NOT use the proxy.
• NON - CACHEABLE items
• which we discussed earlier are
• Filtered out in the Web Servers
• Caching software.

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• Configuring your users browsers. Internet
  Explorer
• PRACTICAL EXERCISE - 1
• Press the OK button until you
• have exited the IE Internet Options
• menu and are back at the main
• browser screen.

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• Configuring your users browsers. NETSCAPE
• PRACTICAL EXERCISE - 1
• Go back to your desktop and open Netscape
  Navigator / Communicator.
• Go to the edit menu and select
• preferences

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• Configuring your users browsers. NETSCAPE
• PRACTICAL EXERCISE
• The Preferences
• menu looks like that shown
• here.
• Double-click on the
• Advanced menu. 3 sub-
• menus should then appear.

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• Configuring your users browsers. NETSCAPE
• PRACTICAL EXERCISE
• Double-click on the
• Proxies menu.

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• Configuring your users browsers. NETSCAPE
• PRACTICAL EXERCISE - 1
• The Proxies menu can
• Be configured either manually
• or by using a script.
• For automatic configuration
• you should enter the URL which
• points to the location of the config.pac
• file on your Webserver.
• e.g. http//wwwconfig.fictional.ac.uk/config.pac

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• Configuring your users browsers. NETSCAPE
• PRACTICAL EXERCISE - 1
• For manual configuration, select
• the manual proxy configuration
• button and press the view button.

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• Configuring your users browsers. NETSCAPE
• PRACTICAL EXERCISE - 1
• The manual configuration
• looks like this.
• Complete relevant sections
• and add exceptions into the Do
• not use proxy servers for field.
• Click OK until you are back
• to the main browser screen.

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• Contacting the JANET Web Cache Service Support.
  What the user sees.
• PRACTICAL EXERCISE 2
• The JWCS offer a support service to help users
  who experience errors and difficulties whilst
  surfing the web.
• Please double click on Internet Explorer.
• In the address field type http//www.manchester
  online/zzzxxaa

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• Contacting the JANET Web Cache Service Support.
  What the user sees.
• PRACTICAL EXERCISE 2
• As you can see, you
• are presented with an
• error message from the
• National JANET Web
• Cache Service as shown.
• Note the email given
• at the bottom of the section.

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• Contacting the JANET Web Cache Service Support.
  What the user sees.
• PRACTICAL EXERCISE 2
• When contacting
• support_at_wwwcache.ja.net
• include any error messages
• shown on this page.
• Use the email account
• and client given to you to contact
• JWCS Support.
• Include the word FAKE at
• the beginning of your subject.

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• Contacting the JANET Web Cache Service Support.
  What the user sees.
• PRACTICAL EXERCISE 2
• The JWCS support team will respond to any users
  enquiry sent to support_at_wwwcache.ja.net.
• All replies from JWCS Support are by email and
  contain a unique TICKET NUMBER in the subject
  field e.g. JWCS-TICK 20010521.1954 Re Janet
  WWWCache
• Users should keep this ticket number in the
  subject field.
• The automatic tickets enable JWCS support to
  track all support enquiries.