Very Computer

Hello everyone,

I have a Linux box that is connected to a LAN.  The LAN is connected to
the Internet through an NTS 4.0 box using Microsoft Proxy Server, as we
have only 1 IP address for the entire LAN.

Currently, I cannot make Linux see the Internet.  Netscape 4.03 for
Linux does sees it, though, but only for Web browsing (no mail or
news).   My question is, then, how do I make Linux see the Internet in
this case?

I have tried Socks5 and Squid.  Neither of them worked.  I don=B4t want t=
o
spend too much time with either because I don=B4t even know for sure that=

they will do what I need them to do.  This is because I don=B4t know what=

is the protocol MS Proxy Server is really using, as it may be some
proprietary mess.

Thanks in advance,

Victor R. Rivarola

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Victor,

According to your information, the problem resides in the authentication
process. Microsoft uses it's own authentication method. You could try to
enable passthrough in the MS-Proxy server. Of course that would't solve your
problem, but then you're sure that it's a Microsoft problem!!
I've heard that there are some patches for Netscape at the Microsoft site,
but I think they were for Netscape 3.x browsers.

Let me know of your progress...
Feisal Lam-Lion

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I am not quite shure of this but I think that using WINPROXY will let HTT=
P,
MAIL,NEWS,FTP etc through using port 80 for all. I have not yet gotten my=

LINUX box up on the LAN, but since this works fine from all internett
applications under Win95 in the LAN, why should it not from a UNIX box? I=
t
is just a question of tcp/IP on the right soket to the proxy server, whic=
h
then takes care of the rest, translating the internal IPs to the single
external one.

There is an option for Proxy Server that deals with authentication. I have
run macs with Netscape thru ms proxy. It will put up one of the normal
username password dialogs like when you hit a normal password protected
site. You need to put in a valid username/password for an account on the
nt machine. The option may be called plaintext or something similar.

I'm not sure how well it will work for mail and news. It should be able to
do NNTP proxy but that probably costs extra :-)

djweis

David Weis

Hello everyone,

I have a Linux box that is connected to a LAN.  The LAN is connected to
the Internet through an NTS 4.0 box using Microsoft Proxy Server, as we
have only 1 IP address for the entire LAN.

Currently, I cannot make Linux see the Internet.  Netscape 4.03 for
Linux does sees it, though, but only for Web browsing (no mail or
news).   My question is, then, how do I make Linux see the Internet in
this case?

<snip>

MS-Proxy 2.0 uses SOCKS 4.  You can read about it at
http://www.veryComputer.com/
Good luck.

Ryan Minihan
*highway Technical Support

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Stardate Sun, 19 Oct 1997 10:47:31 +0200:

Quote:> I am not quite shure of this but I think that using WINPROXY will let HTT=
> P,
> MAIL,NEWS,FTP etc through using port 80 for all. I have not yet gotten my=

> LINUX box up on the LAN, but since this works fine from all internett
> applications under Win95 in the LAN, why should it not from a UNIX box? I=
> t
> is just a question of tcp/IP on the right soket to the proxy server, whic=
> h
> then takes care of the rest, translating the internal IPs to the single
> external one.

As for Win32 proxy servers, I've found WinGate is much easier to deal
with Linux boxes.  Of course, I've also found that Linux+IP_Masquerading
is the best option.

See ya...
--

University of Wisconsin-Madison Computer Science
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~dutra
~`+ Linux Inside - http://www.linux.org +`~

Quote:> Currently, I cannot make Linux see the Internet.  Netscape 4.03 for
> Linux does sees it, though, but only for Web browsing (no mail or
> news).   My question is, then, how do I make Linux see the Internet in
> this case?

An alternative (and much more reliable) solution would be to set up
Linux with IP-masquerading.

I have installed Ms Windows proxy and NT because some of our clients want so,
but we run IP-masquerading ourselves, not because it is cheaper but
because it si far more flexible (it is completely transparent, no
client software as with Winsock proxy) _and_ reliable

Hope this helps

Daniel

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Daniel Lopez Ridruejo        "When men were men and wrote their own drivers"

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The point is that you have to install a client which translates all system
calls to winsock.dll in the machine behind the proxy to calls to the
winsock.dll in the proxy machine. It is somewhat a primitive "Ip masquerading"
It is OK when all the machines behind the proxy are windows boxes.

I do not know if things have changed since ver 1.0 (now they have MS Proxy
2.0)  But (despite from the prohibitive price) I think a well configured
linux box can make the same work better and _far_ more reliably.