Windows Routing Problem

[toss12]

At my new place of employment they were stuck with 25 PCs sharing a Modem Connection using Proxy Server on Windows NT 4. After much discussion I was able to convince them to purchase T1 service.

Now T1 installed and working great. However for the mean time mail still goes out the modem connection.

The problem is that several PCs refuse to go out the router. They continue to find the proxy server and go out that way. I disabled the Internet Explorer settings for proxy and I even used the DOS prompt FTP and I still went out through the proxy. The only utility that will go out the router is tracert.

I checked all the IP settings using winipcfg and everything looked good. I could ping the router and the DNS.

All the PCs use Windows 98 SE, and basically some work and some don't (I can't find any similarities). On one machine that had this problem, I simply re-installed Windows and everything worked as it should. I could do this for all but that seems excessive.

Do you think there are some registry hack or some other settings that could fix this problem? Any ideas/advice would be appreciated.

Thank you

 

[Agamar]

Did you uninstall the proxy software that has to be installed to use Proxy Server? It can be found in the control panel on the affected PC's. You can also just turn it off.

 

[Cooky]

Also, try reinstall the network components.
In case you have to reinstall windows on all machines, use image distribution software to save you time.

 

[Fatt]

Did you set the default gateway to the proper port on the router?

 

[toss12]

It was Microsoft Proxy Client software installed...I was not here when it was setup so didn't know about it. Also it is really hard to find/setup Microsoft Proxy Client if you don't know it is there. All I did was remove it and everyone is now heading out the T1 (and I am a hero...haha). Thanks for help