Centos Network Configuration – on a Barebones from Command Line

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Centos Network Configuration – is very simple on a full installation. However, I downloaded the Centos’ “Minimal Install” cd and used yum to install various packages I needed. The simple way to do it if you have a standard installation is to use the Network Administration Tool (system-config-network), which is a graphical interface to edit … Read more

Browser Auto-config and Wpad deployment

Using a Proxy Server in your Company’s Network is one of the best decisions you have made. But this decision can bring you some administration overhead if you don’t have an automatic way to provision the browser settings. Fortunately, for Microsoft Operating Systems there is a way to accomplish this. The procedure involves a configuration … Read more

How to Install Squid with Active Directory Authentication on Debian

Squid is a caching proxy software, licensed under GNU GPL, (free software).
It can help your Organization to reduce bandwidth and improves response times by caching and reusing frequently-requested web pages.
Squid has extensive access controls and if you don’t mind Command Line Interface is not too hard to configure. It runs on most available operating systems including Windows.
The following article is a step by step HOW TO Install Squid on Debian. Most of the steps are easily applicable to any other Linux distribution such as: RedHat, Suse, Ubuntu, etc…