[plug] Gateways and Windoze

[Bret Busby]

Mark J Gaynor wrote:
> 
> At 05:05 PM 1/11/00 +0800, you wrote:
> >We have a firewall/gateway set up using ipchains and Red Hat 6.0. On the same
> >box, the server, we have samba operational, which apparently works with the
> >Windoze 95 on Anne's computer.
> >
> >I am running Red Hat 5.2 with Netscape Communicator 4.07 on my computer, for
> >Internet access.
> >
> >The problem is that Anne wants to use IE4 for Internet access on her
> computer,
> >as apparently she can use key combinations instead of a mouse, as using a
> mouse
> >gives her problems, due to too many hours over too many years at computers
> and
> >computer terminals.
> >
> >But, while connecting my computer running Red Hat 5.2 to the Internet, via
> the
> >gateway, is no problem, we cannot get either Windoze 95 or Windoze NT to
> connect
> >to the Internet via the gateway. She can access web pages on our intranet web
> >server, which is the gateway server, but cannot get out to the Internet
> via the
> >gateway on the server.
> >
> 
> Hummmm! sounds like a job for Squid or a proxy server to get round the
> firewall
> you built. Try this URL: http://squid.nlanr.net/
> 
> Red Hat probably has a distribution if you don't want to build one. It also
> can
> act as a cache as well, saving you some bandwith on frequenly accessed data
> that
> does not change much.
> 
> Mark
> --

We were advised against using a proxy server; as we didn't need the caching.
However, it may not have been realised then, that we would be wanting to be
using a Windoze client for Internet access.

Is a proxy server the only option for this problem, while retaining the
gateway/firewall?

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Bret Busby

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