FreeBSD 10 on VMWare in a corporate network; How?

[Alban Hertroys]

On 13 February 2014 09:30, n j <nino80 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>
> As krad above pointed out, you can use ntlmaps (/usr/ports/net/ntlmaps): a
> simple python proxy that does NTLM authentication for you.
> However, you could also use cntlm (/usr/ports/www/cntlm -
> http://cntlm.sourceforge.net). It's a C proxy so there is no python
> dependency. The package is about 50KB, but you do have to transfer it to
> your VM somehow (burn to CD if nothing else?).

Thanks for the suggestions so far. ntlmaps is probably the first thing
to try, because it's readily available on the DVD.

I haven't really gotten around to trying out any suggestions yet, been
too busy with regular work and this is kind of a low-priority/hobby
thing I'm attempting.

Regards,
Alban.