Can I use a MS proxy server with TRU64 effectively?

[Yiannis Siainis]

Hi everybody,

I am new to TRU64 so my questions can be a bit rudimentary.

I have a TRU64 server ver 5.1B on the company private net. Internet access happen through MS Proxy 2.9 SP1. Netscape connects OK but apps like seti@home ;-) cannot get through. In MS machines I use the Proxy Client to solve the problem but there is nothing like that in TRU64.

I found somewhere on the NET that you can define environment variables that will accomplish the same thing but nobody mentions any details.

can anybody help?

By the way the proxy requires authentication. Also trying the seti's socks arguments produces no results.

Thanks.

[Ralf Puchner]

MS products are always compatible to only MS products - because they uses no "standards".

You can use the dante socks client from the Internet Express Kit or the socks client from www.socks.nec.com

Good Luck....

[Arnaud Veron]

Why don't you install squid on your tru64 host ? Squid support NTLM auth and basic auth.
You just have to declare the ms proxy as a parent proxy of the squid tru64 proxy.

after that, use the http_proxy and ftp_proxy environnement variables, or built-in proxy support for tru64 apps.

good luck.