ntlmaps for Debian ------------------ By default the ntlmaps server is configured to listen to port 5865 on localhost. Once running, you may use it (with wget, apt-get, etc) like any other web proxy, e.g. by setting environment variable: http_proxy=http://localhost:5865 The ntlmaps proxy server must first be configured, which can be done by answering the debconf questions at installation, or by editing the file /etc/ntlmaps/server.cfg. This enables you to logon to the parent MS NTLM proxy server via the local ntlmaps server. The key variables in the config file are: PARENT_PROXY The name (IP address or hostname) of the NTLM proxy you are trying to connect to. NT_DOMAIN MS Windows logon details, required for logging onto USER the parent NTLM proxy. The Windows NT domain PASSWORD may or may not be mandatory. Other settings which have common defaults, but may need to be edited, include: PARENT_PROXY_PORT The port which the parent proxy listens to (often 8080, to which it is set by default). FRIENDLY_IPS Machines which may connect to the parent NTLM proxy via this ntlmaps go-between. All of these entries except for FRIENDLY_IPS (which is not required for localhost installation) may be set via the debconf questions, although manual changes to the config file will also be preserved. To aid security, the PASSWORD is not stored in the debconf database, and if left blank in the debconf question, will be ignored completely by debconf (the manual setting in the config file will be left untouched). Other settings in the config file relate to debugging or rarer authentication settings, and can most often be ignored. Note that although this package is set up to run as a server process (as "root"), the ntlmaps server itself may in fact be run by any user. This may be desirable if you have many users on the one machine, who should be logging on to the NTLM proxy server using their own username/password. In this case you'll want each user to invoke "/usr/lib/site-python/ntlmaps/main.py -c /path/to/user/server.cfg" using their own server config file. -- Drew Parsons , Sun, 21 Jan 2005