Comments on: How to Configure Ubuntu desktop to use your proxy server

By: Zetheroo

Zetheroo — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 05:37:25 +0000

I have applied the settings system-wide but nothing can connect to the Internet except Thunderbird and Firefox.
Skype, Pidgin, Update Manager … do not connect to the net! VERY frustrating!!!

OpenSuse and Fedora both get through the proxy so I know it is not an issue with the server or with my username/password/settings!

By: Emmett Hoops

Emmett Hoops — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:43:01 +0000

This is about the 50th bit of advice I’ve followed to get my Ubuntu 9.10 to update -- and it’s the 50th failure. No matter what I do, I keep getting IGN and 407 errors. I can get through with Firefox by simply setting the proxy and port, but Synaptic doesn’t work and neither does apt-get. I’m incredibly frustrated, and about to give up and reinstall XP.

By: Adriaan

Adriaan — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 23:15:39 +0000

This doesn’t work, nothing works, cannot do a commandline update getting 407 proxy Authentication errors, all websites same advice.

By: georgi

georgi — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:36:05 +0000

thanks, this fixed my problem!

By: SonniesEdge

SonniesEdge — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 09:13:23 +0000

Sounds like the proxy isn’t working for HTTPS sites. Make sure you ticked the “use this proxy server for all protocols” checkbox in the proxy config.

By: georgi

georgi — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 04:15:26 +0000

I’ve followed the above instructions to configure my proxy at work and browsing the web only works partially.
For example, hitting “login” for Yahoo mail gives me an error, same for Hotmail. Gmail does not display at all. Other websites work fine. What could be the problem? I tried putting my Active Directory user name and password for the proxy authentication credentials but that doesn’t seem to help much. I’m on an Active Directory network .

By: simon

simon — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 22:23:32 +0000

Seems it should just be necessary to do it once at system wide.

By: Mayo2000

Mayo2000 — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:21:38 +0000

I’m wondering what fonts are you using. They look pretty.

By: genewitch

genewitch — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:23:17 +0000

@adam: you’d have to do that on windows if you used any non-microsoft programs (like firefox)

The easiest way is to go multi-user and have different settings for each user, i’d imagine. then use homeuser at home and workuser at work.

thanks for the article, it worked great, i think!

By: Adam

Adam — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:12:39 +0000

What if you’re going to and from the office, you have to set and unset this in three places every time? Not good enough!

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:39:25 +0000

This is very helpful, in 9.10 I had to fiddle with Synaptic and exporting paths because my HTTP proxy requires user authentication and it comes up with an error if I just set the Network Proxy Preferences under the System Menu (even when set to system-wide).

Yes, Firefox does use the Network Proxy Preference if set to System-Wide but only firefox asks you for your credentials, the others like Synaptic need you to configure it within their program

By: SonniesEdge

SonniesEdge — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:30:06 +0000

You shouldn’t need to touch the Firefox settings. Just leave it at “use system settings” and it will use whatever you’ve set in the system proxy dialogue.

Under Karmic/9.10 you won’t need to mess with the other settings either - just click “Apply system-wide” - no need to mess with exporting paths or fiddling with Synaptic.

By: qwerty

qwerty — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:09:43 +0000

Firefox uses system wide network/proxy settings by default, there is no need to edit them.