Re: OT: M$ Proxy Server
On Sun, 2002-09-22 at 23:11, martin f krafft wrote:
> So my brother, a just-convert from XP to Debian, is attending
> a boarding school here in Germany which is apparently a so-called
> Micro$oft Project School, meaning that it's all Micro$oft (it even
> smells there). Now Micro$oft apparently found out that my brother has
> installed Linux and that many of his friends are getting interested,
> so they ordered the system administrators to install Proxy Server 2.0,
> a discontinued product! Proxy Server 2.0 requires a client program
> that is only available on Windoze, naturally. Apparently they couldn't
> use ISA because despite sporting more colours and a fancier name, it
> also allows heterogeneous clients (what's an "acceleration server"
> anyway but a big cheat with words? (yes, i know it's a cache)).
>
> Great, isn't it?
>
> My question for you: is there a client for M$ Proxy Server for *NIX,
> and is it true that *NIX will be usable behing an ISA Server, provided
> that Samba actually attaches to the domain?
>
You could try the tsocks package, I know of one setup in which we use
that package to make a connection through a M$ proxy server. I have
absolutely no clue as to how that proxy was configured, so I don't know
if this applies for your situation as well, but it might be worth a try.
Teun Vink
Luna.nl System & Network Engineer
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