Changing the Proxy Settings

In this scenario, the personal settings for Mozilla are stored according to username, and the host-specific settings are stored as an IP-based configuration. Both are stored on a central LDAP server. Furthermore, the LDAP tree already contains the "North America" and the "Europe" domains with the corresponding hosts as members of these domains. John decides that the best solution is to change the proxy setting for Mozilla in these two domains according to the host that is used.

Steps

1. In the Navigation pane, click the Hosts tab, and then locate North America in the domain tree.

2. In the "Actions" column next to the North America domain, click View.

3. In the Content pane, navigate to Policies > Mozilla 1.7 > Advanced > Proxy.

4. In the "Value" column of the Use System Proxy Settings row, deselect the Enable check box.

5. In the "Value" column of the Configure Proxies to Access the Internet row, select the Manual Proxy Configuration option.

6. In the "Value" column of the HTTP Proxy row, type proxy.NorthAmerica.com in the text field.

7. In the "Value" column of the HTTP Port row, type 8080 in the text field.

8. Click Save.

9. Repeat steps 1 to 8 for the "Europe" domain using the proxy name proxy.Europe.com and the HTTP port 9090.

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   Note –

   If John wanted to, he could also prevent the proxy settings from being changed by users by protecting them.

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