I previously mentioned how I couldn’t get Mepis to update through a proxy server with authentication.
Well I tried this suggestion which works fine for both apt-get and synaptic package manager. Just add this entry to your /etc/apt/apt.conf file:
ACQUIRE {
http::proxy "http://DOMAIN\username:password@IP:port/"
}
If you want to use Firefox to access a corporate intranet then you will need to enable Windows Authentication. Simply enter about:config in the location bar and locate the following key:
network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris
Enter the domains you wish to access separated by commas. For example, if your intranet was located at http://intranet/ then you would just enter the value ‘intranet’ (without quotes).