On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 12:37:22PM +0100 or thereabouts, Stuart_Luscombe@computacenter.com wrote:
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to run apt through my companies MS proxy server but I'm not
> having much success.
>
> I have read the man pages for apt and apt.conf, and added a line to my apt.conf
> along the lines
> of http::Proxy {"http://<domain>/luscombes:<password>@msproxy:80/";};
>
> but it still will not connect.... any ideas as the connections just keep on
> timing out
>
you're not alone. :-)
the problem is the m$ proxy server wants to authenticate you using NTLM so
unless you have a way to first login to your M$ network for your proxy server
to recognize you there's nothing you can do. i'm not sure if using samba will
work.
--
"GUIs normally make it simple to accomplish simple actions and impossible
to accomplish complex actions." --Doug Gwyn (22/Jun/91 in comp.unix.wizards)
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