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SteveAhmet -> Macintosh, ISA & Video Streaming (19.May2008 8:12:39 PM)

I'm just starting to integrate some Macs into our environment;

Win2003 Active Directory
ISA Server 2000 SP2 running on Windows 2000 Server SP4
PowerMac G5 OS 10.4.11

I'm trying to stream video from this particular page;

http://www.swellnet.com.au/surfcam.php?region_id=0&state_id=2&cam_id=52

I tested it out first without going through the ISA Server and sorted out the Mac related issues, Flip4Mac is installed, and it can successfully stream the live feed in the browser window when no proxy is being used.

However, when I set the proxy options, (I've got Authoxy installed, pointing to the ISA Server - Network settings Proxy set to 127.0.0.1 - both on port 8080), the page itself loads, but the live stream window just appears blank. Eventually it times out and goes back to the home page.

I've checked the ISA logs. I can see it "GET"ting the page, and it's calling Quicktime, but that is the last entry in the ISA log relating to that. There is nothing in Event Viewer logs on the server to suggest a failed authentication attempt.

Just wondering if anyone has come across this before, and suggestions for what I can try.
Thanks.

Steve.



SteveAhmet -> RE: Macintosh, ISA & Video Streaming (20.May2008 2:52:22 AM)

OK, well I've in solved my problem.

1) The first part was to untick the "Ask unauthenticated users for identification" checkbox.
2) Part two was to create a client set rule for all protocols with the IP address of the Mac in it.
3) Part three was to disable the Flip4Mac plug-in so the browser used Windows Media Player instead of Quicktime.

It's funny that the Flip4Mac plug-in worked when I wasn't using the Proxy server, but fell over when one was configured.

A side issue I've had with this was, when I created the client set rule for the Mac, none of the destination set blocking rules I have in place worked, eg block access to Facebook. I had to create a seperate Destination set rule with the Mac client set in it. Make sense???

Is there a cleaner way to do this??

Steve.



AHIT -> RE: Macintosh, ISA & Video Streaming (26.May2008 3:35:54 AM)

Hi Steve,

Glad to hear you solved, or at least temporarily worked around your problem.
RAther thatn giving "full access" to the MAC users, perhaps try.
Create a destiantion set including that site.
Create client set of MAC users IP addresses (although they may change if you use DHCP!)
Create a Site&Conent rule allowing access to that destination set for that client set... or perhaps to "all users" to allow for changing IP's.

This will overcome your "block site for all" type rules for facebook and anywhere else you have.

Hope that helps!




SteveAhmet -> RE: Macintosh, ISA & Video Streaming (27.May2008 2:16:42 AM)

Thanks for the advice AHIT. I will probably need to use that at some point down the track. However, upon further testing, all I needed to do was remove Flip4Mac altogether. No need to change the ISA rules.

Thanks again.



AHIT -> RE: Macintosh, ISA & Video Streaming (27.May2008 4:47:33 AM)

I guess flip4mac isn't really proxy aware...



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