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A possible fix for a broken Software Update
Authored by: ewelch on Sep 08, '04 11:21:50PM

I tried all of those fixes before and none of them worked. Then I discovered the problem by testing every possible cause on multiple Macs in our department at work. It turned out it was our Mac proxy server. I have no idea why our IT department thinks Macs need a seperate proxy server, but they have all sorts of strange ideas about Macs.

When I switched the proxy server settings to the Windows proxy server, Software Update worked. So it seems that the error reports for this problem cover multiple causes, including the fact that it simply can't download the udpate files becuase a proxy server is blocking that download.

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Eric

Ernest Hemingway's writing reminds me of the farting of an old horse. - E.B. White



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