Over-ride proxy407?

Question

Hi people, I have started a new job and it's a very small team and I am supposed to have access to the internet however I have a problem that is stopping me from enabling me to do the job properly, when I open I.E (its XP I am using) the company intranet page opens but when i open a website it asks for username and password which I don't have then it says 407 Proxy and gives me an error, is there anyway to override this so it doesn't ask, normally the I.T team would assist me well the one person who does the IT but he is off on long term sick and no one is being appointented in his place (which yes will cause problems if any serious computer problems occour! but that company is tight with money what can i say!) Any help would be appreciated other than to pack the job in and get a decent one with some support!

Answer 1

OK, this is kinda tricky, because what you are asking for is how to bypass the proxy server that has obviously been put into the system to stop unauthorised outgoing internet use, and by giving you a solution, I run the risk of seriously p***ing off a lot of IT administrators. However, I can only give you part of the solution anyway, so here goes. Your computer has an IP address, which will be something like 192.168.x.x or 10.10.x.x etc. If you open your network card properties and open the TCP/IP section, it will either show you a fixed address, subnet and gateway or it will say it is using DHCP. If it's fixed (static), the important address is the gateway, because in your case, the gateway is the proxy server that is blocking you. If it's using DHCP, then close all the network boxes you just opened and click on start, run and type cmd to open a dos window, then type IPCONFIG. This again will give you the all important gateway address.. ok. that was the easy bit. The fact is that the router that connects your network to the outside world is unlikely to have the same address as the gateway. The problem is that you need the routers address. For example your gateway is 192.168.1.200. The router may be 192.168.1.201, then again it could be any address because IT administrators tend to make the address completely different to stop exactly this kind of thing! One really neat solution to this for you, is ask one of your colleagues to do the following.

Click on start > run > (type cmd)
now type: tracert yahoo.com

This will show you the route taken to get to yahoo.com. The first address it shows is likely to be the proxy server. The second is probably your gateway. Once you have this information, go back to your machine and change ONLY the gateway address to match the one you just discovered. I can't guarantee this will work because there are a host of other factors in this and certainly on my network it would fail because my proxy server changes the subnet address as well to stop you doing this. If all else fails, just give the guy a ring! I hope that helps a bit. Oh and one other thing, try admin as both the username and password it's sad how often it works! [e-mail]