From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Manish Regmi Subject: Re: internet access through proxy... Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 13:10:02 +0545 Message-ID: <652016d305051300256a0a6679@mail.gmail.com> References: <652016d30505112356347dff09@mail.gmail.com> <428302C9.50403@comarre.com> Reply-To: Manish Regmi Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: In-Reply-To: <428302C9.50403@comarre.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org On 5/12/05, Ray Olszewski wrote: > The purpose of a proxy server ... from the network manager's point of > view, anyway ... is to prevent LAN users from accessing the Internet > with arbitrary applications. So the way to force users to use it is to > block direct access to the Internet at the firewall/router. > > In a proxy-server setting, you can only proxy the apps that your proxy > server is willing to proxy ... and those are typically only ftp, http, > and https (and maybe a couple of others I'm not thinking of right now). > > So no, there is no generic way to use the proxy server for everything. > For ssh and traceroute, there is most likely no way at all ... and no > one can tell you about "etc". > > As to lynx, since it is an http client, there is no reason in principle > why it could not work with a proxy server. Its man page seems to say it > can do so via ENV variables of the form *_proxy, for example http_proxy > and ftp_proxy ... but I haven't tried this. So you might look at the man > page ... down in the section on COnfiguration ... and experiment a bit. > Thank you for making things Clear. What should i do to use ssh from my system. May i need to ask my Network Administrator to change some settings in the server. Or can i do it by adding some softwares..... Thanks in Advance... Manish Regmi -- --------------------------------------------------------- "Owning a hammer doesn't make one an architect" - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs