Connecting to a foreign network.

[BoomAM]

Hi.
Im currently doing a work placement at school, a place that i used to work at.
The way that the internet access works there is that as long as you have the proxy address, you try to access a website & a dialog should popup asking you for the internet name & password.
On my old iBook, using Firefox, i could get it to do that and browse the web.
But. I cant get it to do it on my new Thinkpad, in either Firefox, IE or Opera. Thats with the proxys put in the options for each of those programs.
Ideas?

 

[tolien]

Is the machine assigned an IP or anything?

 

[BoomAM]

Yeah.
The Ethernet has a DHCP server. And the WiFi, that i set up for the school, that was working fine with my iBook 4 months ago, also has DHCP on.
It connects to the Wifi fine, and gets an address.

 

[Skilldibop]

try setting it to auto detect proxy settings. Might get lucky.

 

[BoomAM]

Sorted it.
But now, the only browser that comes up with the security dialogue box, Firefox, asks me the same security question everytime i goto a new site, and says that the info is wrong 2 times in a row, then lets me the 3rd time!

 

[Skilldibop]

your proxy is playing silly buggers by the sounds of it.

 

[BoomAM]

Fix?