FreeBSD 10 on VMWare in a corporate network; How?

[Kurt Buff]

On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 5:24 AM, Alban Hertroys <haramrae at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 7:17 AM, Alban Hertroys <haramrae at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> For an experiment @work I figured I'd install FreeBSD 10 x64 in a
>>> VMWare virtual machine that was made available to me, but I'm kind of
>>> stuck installing ports or packages...
>>>
>>> The thing is, the vmware tools provided with this version of VMWare
>>> (VMware® Workstation 10.0.1 build-1379776) are packaged with a Perl
>>> script and there it looks like there is no Perl in FreeBSD 10.
>>>
>>> We're behind an NT/LM authenticated proxy, which I haven't managed to
>>> get past yet from the FreeBSD installation in the VM, so downloading
>>> distfiles (Perl, for example) isn't currently possible.
>>>
>>> I created a shared folder in VMWare to store distfiles on, but
>>> apparently I need VMWare tools installed to access such a folder,
>>> which brings me back to the Perl problem.
>>>
>>> It appears that I need samba & squid to have NT/LM authentication to
>>> get through the proxy so that I can download ports & packages, but to
>>> obtain packages for those I need to be able to get through the proxy
>>> first.
>>>
>>> How do I solve this conundrum?
>>
>>
>> You may consider obtaining the DVD ISO to upload to your ESX store;  Attach
>> it to the VM's cdrom device and boot to it which starts the installation.
>> Everything you need to build the OS is on the DVD.
>
> I just got that far by myself, but thanks for the suggestion anyway.
> I'm afraid that not _everything_ I need is on the DVD though.
>
> The DVD does include pkg (from which one can extract pkg-static to
> install it) and perl, but not the open-vm-tools package or the
> compat6-amd64 that the VMWare supplied vmware-tools claims to require.
> It also lacks a vmware frame-buffer for Xorg, but perhaps that is
> provided by the (missing) vmware-tools package?
>
> There is a samba package that probably contains the necessary
> libraries to use NTLM authentication, but no Squid to combine those
> into a local NTLM-enabled proxy to get past the company proxy.
>
> This is my first time dabbling in proxy-waters and weird Windows
> authentication schemes, so I'm a little reliant on tutorials I found
> on the internet and the few around all use squid and samba... If there
> are other (probably better) ways, I'd love to hear them. Perhaps I
> don't need Squid?
>
> Cheers,
> Alban.


Curl can do NTLM auth - perhaps some hackery to use that instead of fetch?

Kurt