F@H Through ISA Server

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This seems to be a bit of a impossible task but I thought I would ask here before giving up.

Currently at work we're freeing up a load of servers which won't really be doing much, so I'm trying to get F@H running on them all. The major stumbling block with doing this is that the servers can only connect to the internet if they go through our ISA server.

I've tried all various combinations of server name and username/password but nothing can get the server to connect. Does anyone know of anything I can do to our ISA 2000 server which will just let this traffic through without requiring authentication ?
 
setup internet explorer to go through the ISA server firewall

Then get FAH to use the internet explorer settings... I did that and it works fine... let me know how you get on :)

Stelly
 
Make sure that the f@h client is running as a user which has internet access priviledges on your network. If you are running as a service, that means changing the log on settings for the f@h service. Then try what Stelly suggests.
 
hmm, having tried to get some borgs back on line I find myself also having problems due to ISA. I know I could do it, but for the life of me can't remember the settings now :(

Simply put it connects and downloads new WUs OK.

Upload fails with a "couldn't send HTTP request to server (winnet)"
& "could not connect to Work Server (results)" message

It then queues the results and gets a new WU to crunch.

The borgs are running as a service, the service logged in using a specific account with full access rights including internet use. This gets round users logging on and off the PC.

Any thoughts anyone?
 
Hmm, found the answer, I think....

In the configuration:
Internet Explorer settings = No
Use Proxy = Yes
Proxy name = server
port = 8080
Use username & password with Proxy = yes
Proxy user name = internet valid user - formatted as "domain\user"
Proxy password = userpass

Then there is some messing in the ISA config settings. Simply put folding isn't transmitting the authentication in a format default ISA reads - the old NTLM type problem. Find the http firewall rule and allow that to use basic authentication, and it seems to work. Only problem with that is basic doesn't encrypt passwords very well which might be a security issue.

Now what I really don't get is the f@h client's running on the server itself don't need the user details and password. Just a proxy of "localhost" port 8080 and all ran fine. Seems to be the internal client PCs that are seeing the authentication problems.
 
MGP said:
Now what I really don't get is the f@h client's running on the server itself don't need the user details and password. Just a proxy of "localhost" port 8080 and all ran fine. Seems to be the internal client PCs that are seeing the authentication problems.
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That sounds vaguely familiar from my fiddling with ISA2000 and 2003 18 months ago. Does your ISA server have two NICs?
 
I've tried running the service as a different user, logging on as the user, using internet explorer settings and manually entering the user credentials with no effect. I also tried setting the ISA server to allow basic authentication but same results again.

This is a shame because I've got quite a few machines which are going to be doing nothing and I wanted them to do something productive.
 
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