Google Chrome on TCD servers?

shwagga

Does anyone know how to configure google chrome to work on the TCD servers? It seems the only browsers to work are firefox and IE... I've tried adjusting the settings on chrome but it still won't log in.

aas

Right click on the icon, select properties, and add " --proxy-server=tcdproxy.tcd.ie:8080" to the Target field, so it reads "[Local Drive]:\Users\[Your Name]\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe --proxy-server=tcdproxy.tcd.ie:8080".

Laserhead

Excellent! I couldn't get anything but IE working, it was a nightmare...

dub45

Laserhead wrote: »

Excellent! I couldn't get anything but IE working, it was a nightmare...

proxypac.tcd.ie and port 80 work fine for me with chrome


Firefox works fine too with:

http://proxypac.tcd.ie/accelerated_pac_base.pac

And tick automatic proxy configuration.

d93c2inhxfok4y

aas wrote: »

Right click on the icon, select properties, and add " --proxy-server=tcdproxy.tcd.ie:8080" to the Target field, so it reads "[Local Drive]:\Users\[Your Name]\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe --proxy-server=tcdproxy.tcd.ie:8080".

Sorry to bump an old thread, but when you say to right click on the icon, what icon are you talking about exactly?
I don't really know how to follow the above steps, as simple as they seem!

boblong

Melina Magnificent Scrooge wrote: »

Sorry to bump an old thread, but when you say to right click on the icon, what icon are you talking about exactly?
I don't really know how to follow the above steps, as simple as they seem!

He/she is referring to the desktop icon. You can also use the proxy info as command line arguments if you're running GNU/Linux or (probably) Mac.

d93c2inhxfok4y

boblong wrote: »

He/she is referring to the desktop icon. You can also use the proxy info as command line arguments if you're running GNU/Linux or (probably) Mac.

Ah, I see, thank you!

Edit for failure:
I just copied the text from above into the target section, yet it still doesn't work. I'm running windows 7 if that makes any difference? It seems that the little popup asking for my tcd username/password just doesn't appear when I open chrome, regardless of doing what was posted above.

boblong

Are you added the arguments AFTER the path as the post described? I'm on my phone right now but you should find proxy options under "under the hood" in the chrome options window also.

d93c2inhxfok4y

boblong wrote: »

Are you added the arguments AFTER the path as the post described? I'm on my phone right now but you should find proxy options under "under the hood" in the chrome options window also.

Yep, definitely after, and it reads exactly as it should, which is frustrating. I'll check "under the hood" and see if a good old meddle can fix it.


*I am painfully aware that this is going to go balls up and I'll be re-installing chrome tonight. :cool:

boblong

hang on try proxyb.tcd.ie:8080 (or a).

d93c2inhxfok4y

boblong wrote: »

hang on try proxyb.tcd.ie:8080 (or a).

I tried setting it to
Target: C:\Users\Name\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe --proxy-server=proxya.tcd.ie:8080

and

C:\Users\Name\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe --proxy-server=proxyb.tcd.ie:8080

Yet neither worked. Chrome still wouldn't ask me for my login details.

tehjimmeh

Why are you setting the proxy with arguments like that? I mean, yeah that'll work, but Chrome takes IE's proxy settings by default. No need to be doing that.

Click the spanner on the top right, click "Options", go to "Under the Hood", click "Change Proxy Settings", click "LAN Settings", tick the "Use a proxy server for your LAN..." checkbox, enter in "proxya.tcd.ie" and port 8080, uncheck the "Use automatic configuration script" box, click "Ok".

I always had problems with the autoconfig script myself, always just set the proxy directly like that.

d93c2inhxfok4y

tehjimmeh wrote: »

Why are you setting the proxy with arguments like that? I mean, yeah that'll work, but Chrome takes IE's proxy settings by default. No need to be doing that.

Click the spanner on the top right, click "Options", go to "Under the Hood", click "Change Proxy Settings", click "LAN Settings", tick the "Use a proxy server for your LAN..." checkbox, enter in "proxya.tcd.ie" and port 8080, uncheck the "Use automatic configuration script" box, click "Ok".

I always had problems with the autoconfig script myself, always just set the proxy directly like that.

This worked perfectly, thanks a million!

Is this something I'll have to change every time? As in, if I go home and connect to our internet connection there, will I have to change this back to default?

ED E

I use 3 Icons. Simple and it works.
1. No Proxy, 2, ISS Proxy, 3 SCSS Proxy.

Just add the individual proxy details to the target field of your shortcut.


The only issue I've come across with this is HTTPS. From what I can see --proxy option only sets HTTP, so secure sites shouldnt work. But they sometimes do(dont ask me how). From googling around though it appears there is no way to set the proxy for all protocols like this with chrome. Hopefully its a feature they'll add soon.

Stabilo98

Hey. Can someone talk me through how to get Chrom working for a mac on the TCD network. I have the web proxy set up for ethernet under system preferences. Sometimes i can access certain pages (google searches limitedly) through chrome but never gmail or facebook for some reason.
Any help would be appreciated.

Jehuty42

That almost certainly means that you didn't set the https proxy(gmail and facebook use encrypted https connections, google searches don't). I don't know Macs, but if you go back to the proxy settings you had, set the https proxy as well to the same as the http settings.

A Neurotic

One of the computers in the boiler room in the Hamilton was set up with Chrome as its default broswer. This made me happy.

d93c2inhxfok4y

On a somewhat related not - is there a "smartphones on the TCD network" thread?

I've got a Nokia N95, which is admittedly now a bit of a dunce compared to recent smartphones, but I'd love to get it online on the TCD network.

andrew

Melina Magnificent Scrooge wrote: »

On a somewhat related not - is there a "smartphones on the TCD network" thread?

I've got a Nokia N95, which is admittedly now a bit of a dunce compared to recent smartphones, but I'd love to get it online on the TCD network.

To get smartphones online you've to spoof the mac address. This involves finding out the mac address of your phone (how to do it depends on the phone, so i'm not sure how to do it on the n95). Then, you give your lappy that mac address (spoof the mac address), and connect to the network. then you change your lappy's mac address back, and now you can connect to TCDwifi with your phone. BOOM!

timmywex

andrew wrote: »

To get smartphones online you've to spoof the mac address. This involves finding out the mac address of your phone (how to do it depends on the phone, so i'm not sure how to do it on the n95). Then, you give your lappy that mac address (spoof the mac address), and connect to the network. then you change your lappy's mac address back, and now you can connect to TCDwifi with your phone. BOOM!

All this presuming that your phone can connect to WPA enterprize and use a proxy!

Stabilo98

Does anyone know how to get RTE player and other live streaming sites working through Chrome on the tcd proxy. (i'm on mac btw)

d93c2inhxfok4y

Melina Magnificent Scrooge wrote: »

On a somewhat related not - is there a "smartphones on the TCD network" thread?

I've got a Nokia N95, which is admittedly now a bit of a dunce compared to recent smartphones, but I'd love to get it online on the TCD network.

My poor little 3-year-old N95 is biting the dust, and I'm finally getting myself an iPhone on Saturday. Does anyone have a link to a guide to spoofing the mac address? I'm sure one was posted on boards before (I remember reading it in sadness, pining for an iPhone) but I can't find it.

Ahoyhoy

I love how boards was able to answer this question but IS services never could! They just told me that because Google Chrome takes its settings from the windows settings that it should work fine but I could never get it to. Now I'm on a mac so I just haven't bothered trying.

Also I asked the RTE player question before and someone suggested this - but I haven't had a chance to try it out yet

MareAtlanticvm wrote: »

RTE player works for most on PCs. Not a hope on Mac/Linux.

http://www.kenbenoit.net/how-to-set-proxy-settings-for-r-mac-osx/

A former TCD academic on how to get around the firewall for a different program but it may be of some use.