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While Firefox is configured to use the normal UCT Wpad configuration, this doesn't work with most Linux programs, as they don't support NTLM authentication. | While Firefox is configured to use the normal UCT Wpad configuration, this doesn't work with most Linux programs, as they don't support NTLM authentication. | ||
| − | Each TSL machine has a [http://www.leg.uct.ac.za/howtos/use-isa-proxies CNTLM proxy] running on <code>localhost:8080</code>. It's configured in NTLM2Basic mode - many programs 'can' use basic authentication. | + | Each TSL machine has a [http://www.leg.uct.ac.za/howtos/use-isa-proxies CNTLM proxy] running on <code>localhost:8080</code>. It's configured in NTLM2Basic mode - many programs '''can''' use basic authentication. |
Some programs, like Epiphany, will prompt you to enter a proxy username and password. | Some programs, like Epiphany, will prompt you to enter a proxy username and password. | ||
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== Wget == | == Wget == | ||
| − | Create a file called | + | Create a file called <code>.wgetrc</code>: |
proxy-user=ABCDEF001 | proxy-user=ABCDEF001 | ||
proxy-password=secret-password | proxy-password=secret-password | ||
Latest revision as of 10:43, 14 September 2009
Contents
Your F Drive
You can access your F Drive through NetStorage.
Quota
Every user has a 50MiB quota. To see if you are approaching your quota, open a terminal and run quota:
$ quota
Disk quotas for user abcdef001 (uid 1000):
Filesystem blocks quota limit grace files quota limit grace
tsl.uct.ac.za:/home
49880 51200 52224 910 5120 5222
The numbers you want to look at are the first two. This example shows 49880/51200 = 97% used.
If you see an * next to one of the numbers then you are over quota and programs will start throwing weird errors.
Proxies
While Firefox is configured to use the normal UCT Wpad configuration, this doesn't work with most Linux programs, as they don't support NTLM authentication.
Each TSL machine has a CNTLM proxy running on localhost:8080. It's configured in NTLM2Basic mode - many programs can use basic authentication.
Some programs, like Epiphany, will prompt you to enter a proxy username and password. Others, will just throw an error.
So, you can either configure your UCT Username and Password under System -> Preferences -> Network Proxy -> Details (don't worry - it only applies to your user) or you can choose "Direct Connection" and only access on-campus resources.
Wget
Create a file called .wgetrc:
proxy-user=ABCDEF001 proxy-password=secret-password
Pidgin
- Configure your accounts to use "No Proxy"
or
- choose "Gnome Proxy Settings" and configure your GNOME username and password as described above.
