[lug] Can someone explain this?

[Jim Buzbee]

Centuries ago Nostradamus foresaw of a time when Harris, James A (Jim) would
write: 
> Hemm, just a shot in the dark but what OS is the Firewall running on? If 
> it's an NT based system, maybe they implemented some sort of firewall rules
> that uses your NT domain for authentication.  Since you're not logging into
> the domain on your Linux box, maybe it can't authenticate you?

Yeah, I'm starting to think the same thing, because the firewall is NT as far
as I can tell. And I don't think that there is any tool within Samba to do a NT
domain login...

Jim


> 
> Just an idea... good luck!
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Buzbee [mailto:James.Buzbee at echostar.com]
> Sent: Thursday, November 18, 1999 10:29 AM
> To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> Subject: [lug] Can someone explain this?
> 
> 
> 
> I've got a network problem that has me a bit stumped...
> 
> I'm on a Linux box inside a firewall here at my company.  A couple of days
> ago some sort of change was made in the firewall policy that is causing me
> problems.  Previously I used my web browser, ftp, telnet, pop3, etc. without
> any
> proxies, now I must use proxies within the browser. That I can deal with... 
> 
> The problem is with ftp, pop3 and telnet.  These apps, no longer work.  I'm
> assuming that the new proxy policies have affected these apps but I'm not
> sure. A traceroute shows my packets leaving our firewall, but "hanging up"
> way,
> way  down the line.  
> 
> Now here's the _really_ strange (at least to me) behavior. If I fire up
> vmware
> with windows 95 on my Linux box, telnet to the "outside" works. This is
> embarrassing.  I have to use Windows in order to do a telnet or ftp? Anyone
> have
> any idea what going on?  The windows users around here don't seem to be much
> affected by the change. I'm assuming that the common NT domain login fixed
> things up for them (and me when running vmware). Anyone have any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> Jim Buzbee
> 
> 
> 
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