Drive and Sites firewall and proxy settings – Google Support
Send feedback help content & informationGeneral Help Center experience This article is for network administrators.
For users on your network to access Google Drive, Google Docs editors, and new Google Sites, connect your firewall rules to the following hosts and ports. Otherwise, users might be blocked or denied access from these services.
For the following hosts, [N] means any single decimal digit and * means any string not containing a period.
*
(needed only for Backup and Sync)
*. clients[N]
*.
lh[N]
[N]
clients[N]
About IP addresses and proxies
Techniques that Drive and Sites use to connect to Google servers depend on the browser, browser version, networking conditions, and so on.
IPs
The IP addresses that some domain names resolve to don’t necessarily fall within any given address range.
Other Google properties might use the IP addresses that Drive and Sites use.
Even if you don’t see activity at the addresses listed above, there could be future activity.
Proxies
Drive sync applications support all unauthenticated proxies configured by the operating system.
Backup and Sync supports only DNS-based distribution of Proxy Auto-Configuration (PAC) files. PAC distribution over Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is not supported.
Google Drive for desktop proxies
Drive for desktop encrypts all network traffic and validates host certificates to protect against man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks. If you deploy to a network that uses a decrypting proxy, you should configure the TrustedRootCertsFile setting for Drive for desktop.
Drive for desktop supports both Domain Name System (DNS) and DHCP proxy discovery on Microsoft Windows and DNS proxy discovery on Apple OSX.
Related topics
Configure Google Drive for desktop
Google, Google Workspace, and related marks and logos are trademarks of Google LLC. All other company and product names are trademarks of the companies with which they are associated.
Was this helpful? How can we improve it?
Use Google Services As Proxy Server To Bypass Paywalls, Download Files
Short Bytes: There are different ways to use many services from Google as proxy servers to access the locally restricted websites at your workplace, school, or college. Here, we’ll show you how to use Google Translate and Google WebLight services as proxy servers to access blocked content. Try these Google proxy server tricks and make your web browsing a better experience.
Sometimes, it happens that you are not allowed to access some restricted websites at your workplace, college, or school. But, it might also be the case that you urgently need to access those websites for some educational or personal purpose. In those cases, you can use different services from Google as proxy servers.
Below are the steps where we show you how to use Google services as proxy servers. Take a look at these methods to use Google proxy services —
How to use services from Google as proxy servers:
1. Google Translate as Proxy server
Go to Google Translate page. Choose a source language that you do not speak, here it’s “Spanish”.
Choose the destination language as the one you speak, here it’s English.
Enter the URL of the website you want to access in the source and then wait for it to translate it.
Using Google translate as proxy server
Once Google is done translating the text, the URL that you entered in the source will remain a URL, but it will become clickable on the destination box
Click the translated link in the right box and you will be able to access the website within Google Translate. Google translate will continue to translate the text as you browse the website.
Google translate as proxy
Note: This trick of using Google translate as proxy server works only when the website has been blocked by the local administrator. If the website is blocked by your ISP, it won’t work.
2. Google WebLight services as Proxy server:
What is Google WebLight service?
Google WebLight services can also be used as a proxy server. This service is used by Google to render heavy websites on a slow connection. It means that Google WebLight optimizes a website up to 80% and delivers the website in a mobile site format.
If you want to use Google WebLight as a proxy server, then replace ‘Fossbytes’ with the site of your choice. Then paste that in a web browser’s address bar and press enter.
“
Google weblight rendering mobile version of FossBytes
I hope you enjoyed using the Google services as a proxy server article. If you are aware of any other method to bybass paywalls using Google services or something else, then let us know in the comments below.
Also read: How To Access Blocked Websites? 6 Easy Ways
Mount Google Drive on macOS and Windows (2021) | ExpanDrive
Home » Google Drive » Mount Google Drive on macOS and Windows
Learn how to map Google Drive as a fast network drive on macOS, Windows or Linux. If you’re looking for a solution for Google Drive on Apple M1 because File Stream doesn’t work, check out Strongsync. Access your entire Google Google Workspace account on-demand without having to suck up disk space by pre-syncing all of your data.
Learn More
Download ExpanDrive
Version 2021. 8. 3 for Mac, Windows and LinuxAugust 17th, 2021
Getting started with Google
Google Drive is Google’s file storage and sharing product for Google WorkSpace. For personal accounts it comes with 15GB of free online storage. Business, enterprise and academic GSuite plans have unlimited storage.
Most people use Drive via their browser directly at. Serious users need a full native integration on their desktop that lets them access files in the cloud from within any application.
Google provides native integration options such their iOS/Android App and their backup and sync client, available for regular Google WorkSpace accounts. If you’re looking to add Google Drive to Finder or Explorer a shared network drive is a great option.
Mounting Google Drive
ExpanDrive is a powerful Google Drive client that connects to Google’s API transforming Drive into a fast network drive. It makes your entire accounts available from any app on your desktop.
A mounted volume of a single team drive
Sync clients generally require you pre-download and keep a copy of all the files you’re interested in on your machine. This takes up valuable harddrive space, time and bandwidth. Often for files you don’t need. With a shared drive you can access everything on-demand. If your company has many TB of data stored in the cloud and you travel with a small laptop, a mapping a network drive to Google lets you have the best of both worlds.
Connect to multiple accounts
Another nice thing about connecting to Google Drive as a network drive is that you can connect to multiple Google Drive accounts at the same time. You can map the root of your Google Drive or an individual Team Drive as a drive letter. You can even configure ExpanDrive to mount individual folders within your personal drive or within a Team Drive. If you’re working on a project confined to one tree of folders, this can be really convenient.
Powerful Server Edition
Head over to our ExpanDrive Server Edition page for instructions and packages for Windows and Linux servers. ExpanDrive Server edition is designed to run unattended, at boot [versus login], and provides drives that can even be re-shared on the network.
Requirements
ExpanDrive supports macOS 10. 10 or newer and a wide variety of Linux distributions including Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Centos, Fedora, Redhat, and more. Learn more about how to install ExpanDrive for Linux here.
ExpanDrive runs on Microsoft Windows 7 through Windows 10. Windows Server is also supported as well as RDP/Terminal services environments. ExpanDrive can isolate multiple users logged into the same machine so they each have their own view of cloud storage.
Map specific Team Drive
Let’s say you’re working on a team of people that is all using the same Team Drive. You can map that team drive to its own drive letter by configuring the remote path inside ExpanDrive. All of the team drives are organized in the “Team Drives” folder. If you had a Team Drive named “work” you could mount just that by setting the remote path to “/Team Drives/work” inside ExpanDrive.
Set the remote path to mount a specific Team Drive or folder
Files on demand
Saving disk space or accessing huge shared Google Drive accounts is another great thing about ExpanDrive and Google Drive. Everything is accessed on demand without preemptively syncing data back and forth. So if you were working on a huge Team Drive like in the previous example you could mount that entire space without needing to first sync it to your computer. You can also easily mark files to be available as offline so you can get work done even without an internet connection.
Access Google Drive as a shared drive
ExpanDrive lets you actually mount your Google Drive account as a virtual drive, just like a USB Drive, on Mac or Windows. It adds Google Drive to Finder so you can browse and access your Drive account without needing to first sync your files, which takes up time and space on your laptop. Just access what you need, when you need it, from within any app like Finder, Windows Explorer, Microsoft Word, Photoshop, or whatever you use. Everything is safely in the cloud but not taking up space on your computer. Isn’t that the point of cloud storage anyways?
Free up hard drive space
What good is a 10TB account if your only supported mechanism move data is via sync. Jason Snell recently wrote a piece at Six Colors called the Dropbox Terabyte Conundrum about this same problem with Dropbox’s new 1TB plan. Using Sync to move your data means you need to pick a folder that mirrors your Drive account and then keep a copy of all that data on your machine. So unless your laptop have a 10TB Drobo or Synology NAS attached to it, then you can’t really DO much with a 10TB Google Drive account. Unless you have ExpanDrive.
Download ExpanDrive for Mac, Windows & Linux
Frequently Asked Questions about google drive proxy
What is a Google Drive proxy?
Google Drive Proxy is a Windows service that provides a simpler interface to the Google Drive API for other applications. It transparently handles authentication, synchronization and managing a cache of downloaded files.
Does Google have a proxy server?
Google WebLight services as Proxy server: Google WebLight services can also be used as a proxy server. This service is used by Google to render heavy websites on a slow connection. It means that Google WebLight optimizes a website up to 80% and delivers the website in a mobile site format.
How do I use Google proxy server?
Open Google Chrome, click on the Settings icon, and Options. Select Under the hood, then Change proxy settings… Select Connections and LAN Settings. Select “Automatically detect settings”, and click OK.