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Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 09:18:07 -0600
From: CyberZombie <CyberZombie AT mediaone DOT net>
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Subject: Re: How do I use a socks server with cygwin?
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You're saying that by using the Hummingbird product, you can ssh through 
the firewall?  Can you elaborate how you did this?

Jason Tishler wrote:

>Niklas,
>
>On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 09:48:07AM +0100, Niklas Morberg wrote:
>
>>I sit behind a corporate firewall and I'm looking for a way
>>to use e.g. cvs from behind the firewall. SOCKS is installed
>>on the firewall.
>>
>
>I just experienced this "pleasure" myself when my (small) company was
>acquired by a large company.
>
>>[snip]
>>
>>How would I go about doing this in cygwin?
>>
>
>Hummingbird has a free (as in beer) solution to this problem for Windows
>that works for Cygwin too:
>
>    http://www.hummingbird.com/products/nc/socks/install.html
>
>I have been using the above very successfully with the following
>applications:
>
>    o Netscape Navigator [1]
>    o Microsoft Internet Explorer [1]
>    o Netscape Instant Messenger
>    o CVS (anonymous pserver)
>    o ssh
>    o ncftp
>    o wget
>    o curl
>    o dict
>
>[1] However, due to the benefits of a caching web proxy, I recommend
>configuring these applications to use such instead of SOCKS, if available.
>
>Jason
>
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