i have an adsl vsnl usb modem and i installed Analog Proxy but the clients are not able to browse pls reply me

Answer 1

Check your proxy gateway in clients system and your proxy can talk with ADSL gateway. Check also for DNS settings.

Answer 2

It's hard to know what level of technical expertise you have, as your question provides no details; however, I will assume that you require a complete explanation of how to install a proxy server.

Tto act as a proxy, the computer must have at least two nettwork adapters (Ethernet cards) -- one for the Internet and the other for the clients. Your USB modem acts as one of the network adapters, and I will assume for the rest of this explanation that you are already able to connect to the Internet. If this is not the case, get help on this point from your Internet service provider.

The second network adapter must be configured for a private IP address (such as 192.168.0.1). If you didn't specfically do this (it's not automatic), here's how to go about it.

Go to Start -> All Programs -> Accessores -> Command Prompt. Type:

ipconfig

Look at the IP address of each of your network adapters. One of the IP addresses will likely be 169.254.xxx.yyy, where xxx and yyy represent any numbers, 0 to 255. Write down the name of the adapter with this address (it's two lines above the IP address). It will likely be something like "Local Area Connection."

Close the Comamnd Prompt, click Start -> Control Panel, and open the Network Connections control panel. Right-click on the name of the adapter your wrote down, and choose Properties. Click Internet Protocol and choose Properties. Click "Use the following IP address" and enter 192.168.0.1 as the IP address. Now his Tab on your keyboard, and it will automatically fill the subnet mask for you (should be 255.255.255.0). Make sure the Default Gateway is completely blank. Click OK, and then OK again, and the close the Network Connections control panel.

At this point, I recommend you restart your computer. If you are more technically inclined, you could just restart the proxy server; however, restarting your computer will accomplish the same thing.

Now, since you say you have several clients, you must have everyone connected to the proxy computer. This has to be done with a hub or a switch, as opposed to an Internet gateway or an Internet router.

Using a straight-through (as opposed to cross-over) Ethernet cable, connect the proxy computer and each client computer to the hub or switch. Make sure the hub or switch is powered.

Now you will need to assign an IP address to each client computer. On each client computer, do the following:

Click Start -> Control Panel, and open the Network Connections control Panel. Right-click on Local Area Connection and choose Properties. Click Interet Protocol and choose Properties. Click Use the following IP address. For the IP adress enter 192.168.0.zzz, where zzz is any number 2-254. Each client computer must use a different number. I suggest you make the first client 2, the second 3, etc. Press the Tab key on your keyboard, and it will automatically fill the subnet mask (again, should be 255.255.255.0). Now, in Default Gateway, enter 192.168.0.1. Now click Use the following DNS server. Enter 192.168.0.1 as the preferred DNS server, leaving the alternate DNS server blank. Click OK, and then OK again. Then close the Network Connections control panel.

At this point you have established basic Internet Protocol connectivity between your client computers and your proxy computer. The last step is telling the browser on the client computers to use the proxy. I will assume you will be using Internet Explorer.

On each client computer, do the following:

Click Start -> Control Panel, and open the Internet Options control panel. Click the Connections tab at the top. Now, near the bottom of that dialog window, click LAN Settings. Click in the checkbox that says "Use a proxy server..." and click the Advanced button. Now enter the following addresses and ports in the table you see.

HTTP: 192.168.0.1 : 80
Secure: 192.168.0.1 : 443
FTP: 192.168.0.1 : 21
Gopher: (leave both boxes blank)
Socks: 192.168.0.1 : 1080

Click OK. Then click OK again, and OK one more time.

Now try browsing on your client computer. Assuming AnalogX Proxy is correctly installed, you should now be able to browse.

Should you still not be able to browse, you may have to uninstall and re-install AnalogX Proxy on the proxy computer once you have finished configuring all the client computers.

Hope this helps.

Just an aside -- I'm not sure why you would be trying to use proxy software to share the Internet with your client computers. It is much easier to use Internet Connection Sharing, as Internet Connection Sharing requires to additional configuration for the client computers.