HP Network Direr Software Products manual Use Custom Settings Step

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These are as follows:

■Use Web browser settings — 3Com Network Director uses the same settings as your default browser to connect to the Internet. This is the recommended setting if the default browser on your PC is supported by 3Com Network Director.

■Direct connection to the Internet — 3Com Network Director connects directly to the Internet through the LAN.

■Use custom proxy settings — 3Com Network Director uses a proxy server that you specify to connect to the Internet. This is the recommended setting if you require a proxy server to connect to the Internet and your default browser is not configured to use that proxy or your default browser is not supported by 3Com Network Director. This is also recommended if your proxy server requires authentication using username and password.

For more information on web browsers supported by 3Com Network

Director see “Web Browser” on page 859.

3Com Network Director can only detect your default web browser settings if your default web browser is Internet Explorer or a version of Netscape Navigator earlier than 4.79, and will default to using a direct connection to the Internet for other web browsers. If 3Com Network Director cannot detect the default web browser settings then you can configure the proxy settings manually by selecting the Use custom proxy settings radio button.

Use Custom Settings Step

The Use Custom Settings step displays if you selected the Use Custom Proxy Settings option in the Connection Type step. From this step you can select the proxy settings such as a proxy server name, port, user name and password as shown in Figure 443.