Proxy Servers:

How to Set Up a Proxy Server to work with iClose-Up: Proxy Servers allow many computers on a network to access the Internet through one computer that is connected to the Internet.

Step One, if you are using a Proxy Server to have your computers get on the Internet and you just want to use the iClose-Up computers as Clients to go out through your Proxy Server then you should on each computer running iClose-Up that is behind the Proxy Server, double click on the red iClose-Up triangles in the lower right of your screen and then press the Options button and select the Proxy tab. Turn on, by checking the option “Internet Connection Sharing/Proxy Servers/Routers”. (Of course each computer would have to be running the Windows Proxy Client Software that would normally be needed for Internet web browsing.).

But if you want to have incoming connections, that is iClose-Up Clients outside your Proxy Server connect to computers sitting behind your Proxy Server, then you have two options:

Option 1 (the easiest option): Install the iClose-Up Proxy software on the computer running the Proxy Server. You can get the iClose-Up Proxy software by downloading it from the Norton-Lambert web site at www.iclose-up.com. There are three steps you need to follow to fully install the iClose-Up Proxy software, which will give you both out going and incoming iClose-Up connections.

First step, you or your network administrator should install the iClose-Up Proxy software on the Windows Proxy Server. See the section “How to Install the iClose-Up Proxy Software” in this online Help.

Second step, you should on each computer running iClose-Up that is behind the Proxy Server, double click on the red iClose-Up triangles in the lower right of your screen and then press the Options button and select the Proxy tab. Turn on, by checking the option “Internet Connection Sharing/Proxy Servers/Routers”.

Third step, in the same Proxy tab as step two above, turn on by checking the option “This Computer is behind a Windows Proxy Server using iClose-Up Proxy Software”. Now enter the internal network IP address (not the external internet IP address) in the space provided of the Computer running the iClose-Up Proxy software. That is all there is to do.

Being behind the Proxy Server with iClose-Up Proxy software on it will be transparent to any outside iClose-Up Clients trying to connect to you. Your iClose-Up Server computers will appear in the “Available” section of the outside iClose-Up Clients “iClose-Up List”.

Option 2 (the most efficient option): If you are technically up to it or have access to someone who is, you should set up Port Forwarding (which is also called a Route Table or a NAT or a Mapping) on the Proxy Server computer. Follow the steps below to have both out going and incoming iClose-Up connections.

First step, you should on each computer running iClose-Up that is behind the Proxy Server, double click on the red iClose-Up triangles in the lower right of the screen and then press the Options button and select the Proxy tab. Turn on, by checking the option “Internet Connection Sharing/Proxy Servers/Routers”.

Second step, you would now go to the Proxy Server and setup port forwarding for the incoming connections. If you are only going to have one iClose-Up computer behind the Proxy Server then you will not need to change iClose-Up’s port number (which is 2338). If however you want to have several iClose-Up computers behind the Proxy Server you would have to give each iClose-Up computer that is behind the Proxy Server, its own port number. You would go to each computer running iClose-Up that is behind the Proxy Server and change the port number in the option “iClose-Up Port Number for this computer” in the Options, Proxy tab. You get there by double clicking on the red iClose-Up triangles in the lower right of the screen and then press the Options button and select the Proxy tab. Note, using Option 2 is more efficient then using Option 1 above because there is less software involved which allows for faster interaction through a heavily used Proxy Server.

Any iClose-Up Clients that connect to you will automatically shift to using the correct port. Being behind the Proxy Server with Port Forwarding on will be transparent to any outside iClose-Up Clients trying to connect to you. Your iClose-Up Server computers will appear in the “Available” section of the outside iClose-Up Clients “iClose-Up List”.