Chuffzilla's questions

I am looking at setting up some kind of visitor wireless access for our company however our internet connections all run through a external proxy.

After many wasted hours explaining to visitors how to enter the proxy settings before they can connect to the web I feel it is time to look at a solution which is a bit more simple from the end user point of view.

My initial idea was that I could just buy a WAP which allows me to select the proxy server but in reality this seems to be quite a rare or expensive option (I have had previous experience using a ZyAIR G-4100 for something similar but this was quite unreliable)

From a bit of research the most popular answer seems to be to setting up a transparent proxy using a Ubuntu box running Squid between the modem and the switch.

Does this sound like the most sensible idea or am I overcomplicating things?

Edit Forgot to mention that my other problem is that i am locked out of the router too so am unable to play about with creating separate subnets that bypass the proxy.

I have recently joined a company which has an SQL 2005 Server running a few databases.

The server looks like no one has touched it in a couple of years and has this week it ran out of disk space.

After a quick hard drive scan it looks like some of the databases have become a little bloated and particularly the Sharepoint_config~*~_log and WSS_Content_log.ldf have grown to about 15GB.

I have been able to log into a couple of the other databases and use the shrinkfile command to free up disk space but for some reason I am unable to log into the sharepoint and Microsoft#SSEE databases (which gives me the "cannot connect to Sharepoint, a network related or instance specific error occurred..." when I try and connect)

I can see that the database is running via the SQL surface configuration and I have made sure that the remote connection settings allow me to connect locally but I am still unable to log in either with windows authentication or locally.

Is there any way to reset or recover the database login details so I can get in?

( I have tried logging in with all the administrative passwords I can find and after tracking down the company who installed it in the first place I found out that they have no idea what the password could have been)