Comments on: Turning your WHS into a Free Proxy Server

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 01:48:00 +0000

Is there a way to set this up so that you are using an anonymous IP address? Say if you were trying to access content in another country which blocks U.S. IP addresses?

By: Tjanardhana

Tjanardhana — Thu, 05 May 2011 09:34:00 +0000

how can i hide the lan settings

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 12:44:15 +0000

Be very careful when using this software if you set it up without authentication it will broadcast itself for anonymous users to use which will utilize your bandwidth and slow down your internet connection. I have used this software many times. You can see who is logged into the proxy. If you don’t believe me keep encryption off and view the logs for who is connecting once you set it up. you will see many people connecting anonymously if Authentication is turned off. I am sure the developers of the software were very aware of what they were doing because it is very intentional and a noob using this software will not know any better. If you require authentication you will have nothing to worry about.

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 12:38:12 +0000

I have done a little research and used this FREEPROXY program it slows down your internet connection because it shares out the proxy with anonymous internet users if you do not have encryption enabled. Be very very careful when using this software it will broadcast your proxy IP out to all to use if you do not require authentication.

By: kkwst2

kkwst2 — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 05:02:27 +0000

This is an issue for me as well…what is worse, it seems to allow unfettered access to the LAN side of my local network. For instance, I can access my router config page simply by connecting to the proxy. That doesn’t seem right. What happened to the authentication?

By: cody

cody — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:28:46 +0000

By: Charles

Charles — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:30:40 +0000

I wanted to be able to access my WHS internet connection at my workplace. I was able to set it up successfully but it doesn’t ask me for a username or password when I access the proxy from work or wherever I am at. I used the NTLM authentication but I guess that’s for something different (?). I would like to enable a password that I must enter when I first start the browsing session from work. Is there a way to accomplish that? Thanks.

By: Joe DiFiglia

Joe DiFiglia — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:42:44 +0000

That is not the correct application for this…

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:34:13 +0000

Can you tell me if a proxy server will help me here.
I have a laptop and a desktop machine. My laptop is a work machine and my desktop is mine. My laptop is part of my work domain and I can start a VPN to access resources at my work. However, my developer tools are quite CPU-intensive and run quicker on my desktop machine, so when I’m working at home I prefer to use that. The desktop isn’t part of the work domain, therefore can’t use the VPN. But I need to access a SqlServer on the company LAN. Can I set up my laptop to connect to the company VPN and act as a proxy server. Then connect my desktop to to the proxy server to be able to access the company network?

By: Ian

Ian — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 23:27:22 +0000

When you say make the dns entries static. What do you mean?