RedHat 7.2 behind MS Proxy

[OhioDude]

Has anybody out there had any success configuring a Linux system to successfully run behind a Micro$oft Proxy 2.0 server?

 

[IsOs]

I haven't tried Linux yet and I don't have MS Proxy. Sorry

Hope someone can help you!

 

[halik]

umm, whats the big problem? just setup netscape or whatnot to use the proxy...

 

[OhioDude]

<< umm, whats the big problem? just setup netscape or whatnot to use the proxy... >>


Umm, this is obviously a configuration you've never tried. Thanks for attempting to help, though.

 

[Abzstrak]

<< I haven't tried Linux yet and I don't have MS Proxy. Sorry <http://subscriber.anandtech.com/i/expressions/face-icon-small-blush.gif>

Hope someone can help you! >>



Thats has got to be the most useless post I have ever seen... just getting his post count up.

Anyways, if U want to browse the web, do as halik said and config netscape (or whatever) to use the proxy. For other apps, configure them accordingly.

Keep in mind however that without a winsock change out, MS proxy is only gonna give U tcp accessibility to the web, no icmp or udp. They designed it for windows, nuthin else...

 

[OhioDude]

<< Thats has got to be the most useless post I have ever seen... just getting his post count up. >>


Nah, IsOs is a good friend of mine and he was just being nice by giving my thread a bump.


<< Anyways, if U want to browse the web, do as halik said and config netscape (or whatever) to use the proxy. For other apps, configure them accordingly. >>


It doesn't appear to be that simple. I have configured all of my apps to use the ip (192.168.0.1) and port (80) of the http proxy. After authenticating, Mozilla returns a blank page no matter what site I navigate to. Netscape rapidly toggles two messages back and forth on the status bar that 1) it is contacting the proxy server and 2) that it has contacted the website and is awaiting a reply. It eventually returns the following error message:

The document contained no data. Try again later or contact the server administrator.

 

[IJump]

I am using MS Proxy Server on NT 4.0 with authentication and logging and no client using Netscape to browse will authenticate. My clients are all Windows clients, but as soon asI turned on authentication and logging it broke Netscape. I am not sure if the latest version of netscape will work, but nothing older would.

I am not sure if these will help, but here are a few links:

Cryptic MS Support

Appeared to have some decent info at first glance, I didn't spend a lot of time with it.

Another thread about it.


You might try turning off authentication and logging within the web proxy properties and see if that works. That is what seemed to break mine, but other than that, it doesn't looking promising......... Thanks, microsoft.

 

[Agamar]

I have run RH 7.2 behind ms proxy server 2.0. No problems here. I also have the proxy server as the DHCP and DNS caching server. I would suggest you try that also.

 

[Nothinman]

If the proxy requires authentication you won't get through because you need a program that understand NTLM, which nothing but MS products do. There have been some NTML implementations (mod_ntlm for apache and ntlm for pam) but I don't believe any for web browsers.

 

[bot2600]

Isn't there an IE for linux?

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[bot2600]

http://www.microsoft.com/unix/ie/downloads/default.asp

that is a link for internet explorer 5 for unix machines. might help?

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[skriefal]

<< that is a link for internet explorer 5 for unix machines. might help? >>



IE5 is only available for Solaris or HP-UX variants of Unix, running on non-Intel hardware. Microsoft would rather drop dead than make a version of IE that works under Linux...

 

[IJump]

<< I have run RH 7.2 behind ms proxy server 2.0. No problems here. I also have the proxy server as the DHCP and DNS caching server. I would suggest you try that also. >>


But did you have authentication turned on on your proxy? That is where the problem is........ You can run other browsers until you want to authenticate, due to NTLM as Nothinman said.



I guess you could run an emulator(WINE, maybe?) and try IE through that on the linux machine, but that would be sacreligious as far as I am concerned.

 

[Agamar]

Nope, no authentication at all. Our proxy is currently set up for our students dorm rooms. We will soon be moving off of it to a linux platform though.

 

[OhioDude]

Yep, without authentication at the proxy it works fine.

But I need authentication...

Bummer...

Thanks for the help, everyone.