Proxy

[Brian Pyle]

Well This it my first time posting to this forum. Please bear with me :) My question is... I have a D Class 9000 running HP-UX 11.0 and would like to be able to use a proxy on an NT server to access an external filesystem with ftp. I am not using DNS as my network is small enough that it really doesn't warrent it. How do I get the ftp to use the proxy. I do have access to it via my default gateway.

[James A. Donovan]

Place your NT Proxy machine in your server's /etc/host

e.g.

10.1.2.3 NTproxy NTproxy.my.domain.com

then

# ftp NTproxy
...then for the username put: anonymous@

Your FTP proxy server then should connect you with the remote FTP service. If the remote service requires a user name other than "anonymous", then use "username@

[Brian Pyle]

Hi Jim,
Thanx for your help. In an effort to try and do what you suggested, I discovered that our proxy doesn't allow ftp service. So I spoke with our network manager, and he informed me that we were replacing our proxy with a pix box in about 3 weeks, making this well probably a mute point. Thanx anyhow though :)