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Title: E-Smith Proxy-Auth
Post by: Cimuser2000 on November 11, 2002, 01:49:37 AM
I installed "e-smith-proxy-auth-0.0.1-01dc-noarch.rpm" off of "http://www.pagefault.org/e-smith/contrib/". From the client side (WindowsXP). when I access the net, it correctly prompts me for Username/Password, but I cannot use my true login name. If I use the "admin" username, no problem. I cannot find where to add users to the "authorized" list people to have internet access. I expected there to be a line item for it in "server-manager", but theres nothing. Can anybody help me out?

TIA
Title: Re: E-Smith Proxy-Auth
Post by: Bill Talcott on November 11, 2002, 05:40:04 PM
I have no firsthand experience with it, but I thought that it allowed only SME users to have internet access (i.e. no "authorized" list of users). You are using a username/password combination that exists on the SME right?
Title: Re: E-Smith Proxy-Auth
Post by: jose velez on November 12, 2002, 04:52:25 AM
www.e-smith.dyndns.org. download the software and install it.  If the proxy user is activated it will produce a list of user and you allow internet access or not.  also you can give access to some sites without giving authorization.
Title: Re: E-Smith Proxy-Auth
Post by: Cimuser2000 on November 12, 2002, 05:46:45 AM
How do you "activate" the proxy user?
Title: Re: E-Smith Proxy-Auth
Post by: Cimuser2000 on November 12, 2002, 06:57:50 AM
Bill,
  Yes, I have users defined on E-Smith. But, I am not using E-Smith as a Primary Domain Controller. So, the clients are peer to peer. They log in locally to their own windows machines. Their local username/passwords are identical to the SME username/passwords. Proxy IS working, I just have to find out how to add/deny users to some list. Right now, only admin works.

Thanks.....
Title: Re: E-Smith Proxy-Auth
Post by: Cyrus Bharda on November 12, 2002, 09:37:40 AM
As Jose said:

ww.e-smith.dyndns.org. download the software and install it. If the proxy user is activated it will produce a list of user and you allow internet access or not. also you can give access to some sites without giving authorization.

its absolutly kicks ass! Brings up a nice little panel called "Proxy Users" where you can turn on/off user's access to the proxy, but the user must exist as a e-smith user, its dead easy!
Title: Re: E-Smith Proxy-Auth
Post by: Lazo on November 12, 2002, 06:32:16 PM
does it work with transparent proxy enabled??

thanks!
Title: Re: E-Smith Proxy-Auth
Post by: Steve Lewis on November 12, 2002, 09:38:11 PM
For those with Proxy Auth installed, what version of SME/e-smith do you have?

steve
Title: Re: E-Smith Proxy-Auth
Post by: Lazo on November 12, 2002, 09:46:18 PM
right now I have 5.0 update 6, I plan to upgrade when 5.6 is ready!!
Title: Re: E-Smith Proxy-Auth
Post by: Lazo on November 12, 2002, 09:47:23 PM
well, but I have transparent proxy installed, but no proxy-Auth!
Title: Re: E-Smith Proxy-Auth
Post by: steve on November 12, 2002, 10:00:50 PM
Ok, I have 5.1.2 installed, have been waiting on 5.6 because ext3 is supposed to be included with 5.6.

Anyway, I need to do Proxy-Auth on a 5.1.2 sme box, does anyone have this working?

And, at www.e-smith.dyndns.org, I assume the squid package is the proxy-auth contrib. Is ths correct.

Steve
Title: Re: E-Smith Proxy-Auth
Post by: Cyrus Bharda on November 13, 2002, 12:59:39 AM
I have 5.5 U2 and have been using the e-smith-squid-0.3-2.i386.rpm at www.e-smith.dyndns.org for about 1 month now, very happy with it. Only thing is that for some reason on W2k machines after it prompts for a username/password, you have to hit refresh to start loading pages (using IE), but works fine with Windoze 95/98/98SE/ME which is good enough for me :-)

Cyrus Bharda
Title: Re: E-Smith Proxy-Auth
Post by: jose velez on November 13, 2002, 01:10:50 AM
On all versions.
Title: Re: E-Smith Proxy-Auth
Post by: Cimuser2000 on November 13, 2002, 04:34:45 AM
I guess I must be in la la land..... I loaded "e-smith-squid-0.3-2.i386.rpm at www.e-smith.dyndns.org" which was successful, and I cannot find the the "nice little panel called "Proxy Users" where you can turn on/off user's access to the proxy"! Is that panel supposed to be in the "server-manager" portion? Or, do I key in some command at shell level to access it? It's not in my "server-manager". Something that is supposed to be "dead easy" has me going in circles.
Title: Re: E-Smith Proxy-Auth
Post by: Cyrus Bharda on November 13, 2002, 05:02:43 AM
Hmmmm thats wierd, cannt help you with that as when I installed it I got a link under "Collaboration" called "Proxy Users" which opens the panel for the squid configuration, try this:

http://<>/server-manager/cgi-bin/pleasewait?/server-manager/cgi-bin/squidconf

as that is where my link points to, maybe you can still access the panel without the link, if not then I dont think it has been installed properly, did you use the update system panel or installed from the command prompt?

Cyrus Bharda
Title: Re: E-Smith Proxy-Auth
Post by: Steve Lewis on November 13, 2002, 05:04:55 AM
Cimuser 2000,

Once you install the e-smith-squid.rpm, reconect to the user manager and check under "Collaboration" there should a "Proxy Users" entry.

I have not even used it yet.

Also, for adding contribs, I suggest the Update system located at http://myezserver.com/mitel/contrib

This is Darrel May's website. I have found any contrib he hosts on his site to be of excellent quality.

Steve Lewis
Title: Re: E-Smith Proxy-Auth
Post by: Cyrus Bharda on November 13, 2002, 05:10:11 AM
http://www.dungog.net/sme/files/

Dungog has a lot of really usefull RPM's too :-)

Cyrus Bharda
Title: Re: E-Smith Proxy-Auth
Post by: Cimuser2000 on November 13, 2002, 06:03:32 AM
Cyrus,
  I might be getting somewhere.... I installed "e-smith-squid-0.3-2.i386.rpm" from the command prompt (rpm -ivh blah..blah..blah). You mentioned using the "update system panel". I don't see that in the "server-manager" screen. Should I load the rpms some other way than the command prompt? Is there something I am missing?

TIA
Title: Re: E-Smith Proxy-Auth
Post by: Cyrus Bharda on November 13, 2002, 06:17:56 AM
Well I'm a bit of a noobie at Linux stuff, but I dunno what "rpm -ivh " does, I thought you had to install it using the "rpm -Uvh " command? Also you can download a Update System package that allows you to install rpm's from the server manager, it can be found here http://www.dungog.net/sme/files/ .

But you might want to try forcing it from the command line "rpm -Uvh --force " that might force it to install, but it might break something too, try using -Uvh first and then see what happens..........  :-)

Cyrus Bharda
Title: Re: E-Smith Proxy-Auth
Post by: Bob Todd on November 13, 2002, 12:10:41 PM
warning about using the system up date panel - a few RPMS's I've tried recently failed to install properly with it because they needed some input from the user as part of the install procedure - this for example broke my install of php-nuke which I couldnt then uninstall, so it was back to a fresh install of SME and begin again - luckily its only a test setup I'm running so far.
Title: Re: E-Smith Proxy-Auth
Post by: stephen noble on November 13, 2002, 03:20:26 PM
>warning about using the system up date panel

it'll work with anything at my site and probably everything at darrells
for more complicated rpms when you probably need to do more stuff at the command line like *nuke it's a fair comment

i use the command line because i can type faster than i can click

fwiw
i don't believe you can have transproxy and proxy auth at the same time

regards
stephen noble
dungog.net/sme
Title: Re: E-Smith Proxy-Auth
Post by: Bob Todd on November 14, 2002, 04:19:22 AM
wasnt a criticism of the update panel - I like it a lot, just a warning not to get too reliant on it as some of us noobs can do :-)
Title: Re: E-Smith Proxy-Auth
Post by: Cimuser2000 on November 14, 2002, 04:44:18 AM
How do you un-install "e-smith-squid-0.3-2.src.rpm"? I tried running "rpm -e e-smith-squid-0.3-2" and I get an "error: package e-smith-squid-0.3-2 is not installed". I have installed it on top of itself with "rpm -Uvh e-smith-squid-0.3-2.src.rpm and it replies with "1:e-smith-squid ########################################### [100%]" Then I try un-installing again and get the same error. I've finally given up trying to get squid's "proxy users" panel to show up in "server-manager". Now I can't un-install it. Anybody know how to manually un-install an RPM?
Title: Re: E-Smith Proxy-Auth
Post by: Cyrus Bharda on November 14, 2002, 04:54:42 AM
Yeah I had the same problem except with a different rpm, I couldnt figure out a way other than a good format :-( .  rpm -e  gave me the same message.

Cyrus Bharda
Title: Re: E-Smith Proxy-Auth
Post by: Dan Brown on November 14, 2002, 05:16:09 AM
You don't really uninstall a source rpm using the rpm command, but it doesn't matter, as uninstaling it won't change anything.  There's certainly no need to reformat.

If you aren't a developer, don't even look at .src.rpm files; they won't do anything for you.  If, however, you've inadvertently installed one, don't worry; it won't hurt anything.
Title: Re: E-Smith Proxy-Auth
Post by: Cimuser2000 on November 14, 2002, 06:08:30 AM
Dan,
  How do you un-install a source rpm program then? I installed "e-smith-squid-0.3-2.src.rpm" to try to get squid's "proxy users" panel to show up in "server-manager". Did I install the wrong file and now there is no way to un-install it?
Title: Re: E-Smith Proxy-Auth
Post by: Dan Brown on November 14, 2002, 06:21:11 AM
A source RPM isn't a program in a usable sense; it's the source to a program.  Thus, there's really nothing to "uninstall", though you can delete the related files from /usr/src/redhat if you really want to.  Yes, you installed the wrong file--you should have installed either a .noarch.rpm (most likely) or (possibly) an .i386.rpm.
Title: Re: E-Smith Proxy-Auth
Post by: Cimuser2000 on November 14, 2002, 06:46:22 AM
Dan,
  You did it! I finally got Squid running. I did install the wrong file (the .src file). I installed "e-smith-squid-0.3-2.i386.rpm" and the "proxy users" panel showed up in "server-manager"!

Thanks so much for catching my installation mistake.
Title: Re: E-Smith Proxy-Auth
Post by: Juan J. on December 26, 2002, 03:31:24 PM
use 'rpm -e e-smith-squid' instead of 'rpm -e e-smith-squid-0.3-2' (only the package name, without version and release ;)).