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

By: Onno

Onno — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 08:25:30 +0000

It seems that network proxying is changed considerably in Oneric and generally found to be not working.

Please update this instruction and/or provide an instruction to do this magical thing for Oneric.

By: Ricardo

Ricardo — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 15:10:41 +0000

Hello Nik.
If the university owns this computer you are speaking of, then maybe you wont be able to change anything, for security reason.
I think you should talk to the administrator of this network first, and check if they can give you the information about the proxy.

Regards

Ricardo

By: Nik

Nik — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 20:46:54 +0000

Hi - thanks for the tutorial first of all. It did not work for me, but I am just learning to use Computers and do not know much about them especially Linux. The tutorial makes complete sense, but my problem is really simple: How can I find out my Proxy-Setting or what exactly do I need? I went to one of these “How is my IP”Pages and it gave me the following information:

IP Adress 146.23XXXXXXXXX
Hostname bcproxyXXXXXXXX
Remote Port 58509
Protokoll HTTP/1.1
eMule ID 84730XXXXXXXXXXX
Proxy Proxy found
Proxy IP 146.23XXXXXXXX
Proxy Typ Anonymous Proxy
Proxy Name b68044XXXXXXXXXXX

I tried to connect using the Proxy IP and the Remote Port but that did not work. If I set Firefox to “automatically get settings” Internet works fine, but I would like to manually configure it to use the Updater, ect. My problem is that I do not know what exactly to put into the blank boxes (How do I find out what kind of proxy it is? Secure, HTTP, FTP?).

Thanks alot in advance - I tried to search for an answer online but could not find anything better than this tutorial. The proxy is used here at a University in Africa if that is valuable information….

Regards
Nik

By: Mazhar H Shah

Mazhar H Shah — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 11:17:31 +0000

Thanx! it is very helping

By: DarkStain

DarkStain — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 07:52:18 +0000

hi im having problem installing gui for ubuntu ive tried sudo apt get update and it doesnt work i keep getting err http…….hostname cannot be found what should i do? And I have a gui in my usb flash, its afterstep. how do i install from it?

By: domsbyte

domsbyte — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:33:11 +0000

Thanks guys very..very..helpful me..:)

By: jose

jose — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 06:52:20 +0000

Thanks a lot!

its my first time to use Ubunto
and its fun.

By: Adiga

Adiga — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 16:31:11 +0000

Also it might help to edit /etc/wgetrc . Uncomment the section for the proxy and add the required credentials for the proxy server.

By: villa

villa — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 04:40:50 +0000

thank you for this information it SAVED my sanity
after so many nights of trying to get my 10.04 to go on line.

By: Ricardo

Ricardo — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:23:54 +0000

Just to let you know guys that i fixed my problem with apt-get by adding the proxy setup into apt.conf file. I found this here http://www.squad17.org/node/29

Hope it solves some of your problems.

By: Ricardo

Ricardo — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:05:28 +0000

My broser works, my IM works, Synaptic works, but when i try to use apt-get. i get 407 error. I changed the bash file as mentioned here, but that didnt work for me. Tried to aply a system-wide on Network Proxy, but that doesnt seem to be working either.

Dunno what else to do

By: Joseph

Joseph — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 05:18:23 +0000

I am also having difficulties in UNR 10.4. i enabled system-wide settings and applied to all protocols, but no program seems to pay any attention. Not any of my three web browsers, not the terminal (ssh, ping, etc), not my IRC client, nothing. Does it just not work?

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.