[plug] squid + ssh & mail [network newbie]

[sol]

Aahh... And here I was thinking that squid did all proxying. Guess it's 
time to visit linuxdoc.org to find out about masquerading.

thanks Ben,
sol

Ben Jensz wrote:

> Squid = web proxy
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> You have to setup masquerading on the "PC/server" so the laptop 
> clients can get access to the net with things that aren't going 
> through the proxy, i.e. your email and ssh to external.
>
> HTH :)
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>
> / Ben
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> sol wrote:
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>> On Sunday I set up my PC to act as a server (squid, apache, wu-ftpd, 
>> sshd) for two client laptops. It was a first-timers effort but 
>> everything went really well. However, I do have a couple of small 
>> problems. The clients can't receive mail from the remote servers, 
>> only the local server. And whilst I can ssh into the local server (my 
>> PC) I can't ssh beyond that. I can use mail (imap client - mozilla) 
>> and ssh to remote domains using the PC but not laptop clients which 
>> can only access the PC/server. The clients just can't locate external 
>> domains except using web browsers which have been configured for the 
>> squid proxy.
>>
>> I thought that this was related to client ssh and client mail 
>> configurations, but I've been messing around with the mail 
>> configurations and can't seem to get any mail client to recognise the 
>> external mailserver domain. Is there something I need to tweak in 
>> squid.conf? Does ssh client have options that allow use of a proxy to 
>> go to external domains? Is this a proxy server problem or a proxy 
>> client problem?
>>
>> thankyou,
>> sol
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