On Tuesday 26 August 2003 03:13 pm, Sergio Javier Belkin wrote: > Hello, I work for a school in which we are using GNU/Linux in desktop for > the students. Incredibly the servant proxy is still Windows since the > school seemed to have it well thus. Now the question is: If I want to make > use of Internet I put the machine Windows like gateway. Then I go to the > configuration of the navigator and put the direction of proxy. The subject > is: How do I do when in order to PC with linux uses proxy windows (it's the > same computher that gateway) in order to use wget in a console either > apt-get if use Knoppix or urpmi with Mandrake. I explain myself? And again > I clarify, that it is an aberration to use Windows as proxy, but I have not > decided it Do ... I explain myself? Thank you very much...
This may not be as understandable to you as your English is to me, but here goes: Mandrake Control Center has a network configuration panel that includes DrakProxy that allows you to set proxies for http and ftp. I am pretty sure that setting such a proxy should work for urpmi and grpmi which is the graphical install program for Mandrake. Traffic for those two should be either ftp or http and those should match up with the proxies set in Drakproxy wizard. It may work as well for wget since that is an http transfer agent and it should use whatever proxy is set in the configuration files since it simply goes out on port 80. I am not as familiar with Knoppix, although I have done some work with it, but the theory is the same, provided Knoppix offers some method of setting a global type of proxy. If it does not, then there is a file in /etc/apt called apt.conf that is the configuration file for apt-get. If you add a line such as: Acquire::http::Proxy "http://proxy.example.you:8080/";; you should be able to specify the proxy for apt-get to use when downloading packages. I would try this out and if you have problems, do a man apt-get and you should be able to get the proper settings from the man page for that application. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer
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