Linux & MS ISA Server

[Chris Purcell]

Stuart Pittwood said:
> Hi all,
>
> The company for which I work uses (for the most part) MS products,
> including ISA server as the local proxies/firewalls.  Now, I'm teaching
> myself how to use Linux (albeit very slowly) so I can use it for various
> services.
>
> I cannot get the Linux box I have set up behind the ISA firewalls to
> talk through the firewall, it instantly rejects my request
> (authorisation needed).  The isa server is set up to request
> authorisation for outgoing web requests but I'd have thought that
> Mozilla would have popped up a username/password dialog much like IE
> does.
>
> Does anyone know of a way around this?


If your ISA server requires user authentication, it probably won't work
with anything other than IE, because thats how M$ likes to do things.  If
your Linux box has a static IP, you can create rules on the ISA server to
allow traffic out from certain IPs without requiring user authentication.

Chris