Re: Win200 gateway blocking FBSD html?

2004-02-20 Thread anubis
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 1:46 pm, Robert Storey wrote: I'm trying to set up a FreeBSD client machine for a school. They have never used FBSD or even Linux, they are 100% Windows. They are interested in letting their students gain experience with non-Windows software. So I need to prove to them that

Re: Win200 gateway blocking FBSD html?

2004-02-19 Thread Andrew China
Sounds like MSproxy server. Doing a search on the net results in similar problems to yours. Some suggest enabling SOCKS support on the MSproxy server and a SOCKS client on your client box. I don't have any experience with MS Proxy directly, other than eradicating the client on some Windows boxes

Re: Win200 gateway blocking FBSD html?

2004-02-19 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 11:46:57 +0800 Robert Storey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to set up a FreeBSD client machine for a school. They have never used FBSD or even Linux, they are 100% Windows. They are interested in letting their students gain experience with non-Windows software. So I

Re: Win200 gateway blocking FBSD html?

2004-02-19 Thread Scott W
Robert Storey wrote: I'm trying to set up a FreeBSD client machine for a school. They have never used FBSD or even Linux, they are 100% Windows. They are interested in letting their students gain experience with non-Windows software. So I need to prove to them that FBSD can work, but I've run

Re: Win200 gateway blocking FBSD html?

2004-02-19 Thread Peter Risdon
Robert Storey wrote: I'm trying to set up a FreeBSD client machine for a school. ... The client machines are connected to a switch, which is connected to a Windows 2000 gateway machine to access the Internet. I set up a FBSD client, and using dhcp it can find the network. And Windows

Re: Win200 gateway blocking FBSD html?

2004-02-19 Thread Alex de Kruijff
Dear Robert, I was wondering, does your mailer hava option to cut the text on or becore char 72? This is a bit difficult to read, but i can answer you question. Articles based on solutions that I use: http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/ On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 11:46:57AM

Re: Win200 gateway blocking FBSD html?

2004-02-19 Thread Aled Treharne
On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 08:30, Alex de Kruijff wrote: Dear Robert, The problem - I cannot access any web sites with http. Doesn't matter if I use Konqueror, Mozilla or Lynx. Yet, all the Windows machines on this network can browse the web (using Internet Explorer) without difficulty. [...]

Re: Win200 gateway blocking FBSD html?

2004-02-19 Thread Robert Storey
Dear All, Thanks to everyone (8 persons so far) who replied to my question - I greatly appreciate the help. Yes, I believe that the problem must be a Windows proxy server - it's a school, and if I'm not mistaken, a proxy server can be configured to block pornographic web sites (correct me if I'm

Re: Win200 gateway blocking FBSD html?

2004-02-19 Thread Gerard Seibert
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 11:46:57 +0800 From: Robert Storey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Win200 gateway blocking FBSD html? To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII I'm trying to set up a FreeBSD client machine for a school. They have never used

Re: Win200 gateway blocking FBSD html?

2004-02-19 Thread James Long
On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 01:12:45PM +0800, Robert Storey wrote: I find this very peculiar. Just to be sure that I don't have a misconfigured firewall on the FBSD box, I installed FBSD on my laptop, plugged it into a different network - works fine, I can surf the web. Then I plug it into the

Win200 gateway blocking FBSD html?

2004-02-18 Thread Robert Storey
I'm trying to set up a FreeBSD client machine for a school. They have never used FBSD or even Linux, they are 100% Windows. They are interested in letting their students gain experience with non-Windows software. So I need to prove to them that FBSD can work, but I've run into a major obstacle.

Win200 gateway blocking FBSD html?

2004-02-18 Thread Robert Storey
I'm trying to set up a FreeBSD client machine for a school. They have never used FBSD or even Linux, they are 100% Windows. They are interested in letting their students gain experience with non-Windows software. So I need to prove to them that FBSD can work, but I've run into a major obstacle.