Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 07:42:28 -0800 From: Kurt Buff <kurt.buff@gmail.com> To: Alban Hertroys <haramrae@gmail.com> Cc: Rick Miller <vmiller@hostileadmin.com>, freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 10 on VMWare in a corporate network; How? Message-ID: <CADy1Ce5s4ukaeV8MRryHDWTr8Um6_if9Uch_YcnGN0b6udzEMA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAF-3MvOYvQCn-hw0v6udOQr%2BgkxwGREDud7=pLiap_J=XBKkhQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAF-3MvPCUDjv4tGeFBf1DkRC6gr2QGsMUT_uH6Q0UU9mo9tv_g@mail.gmail.com> <CAHzLAVEW7b43wJw8Nbz=Di8Sz=hJbdYtnfQpFfhNejJ-0SjEHA@mail.gmail.com> <CAF-3MvOYvQCn-hw0v6udOQr%2BgkxwGREDud7=pLiap_J=XBKkhQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 5:24 AM, Alban Hertroys <haramrae@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 7:17 AM, Alban Hertroys <haramrae@gmail.com> wrot= e: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> For an experiment @work I figured I'd install FreeBSD 10 x64 in a >>> VMWare virtual machine that was made available to me, but I'm kind of >>> stuck installing ports or packages... >>> >>> The thing is, the vmware tools provided with this version of VMWare >>> (VMware=C2=AE Workstation 10.0.1 build-1379776) are packaged with a Per= l >>> script and there it looks like there is no Perl in FreeBSD 10. >>> >>> We're behind an NT/LM authenticated proxy, which I haven't managed to >>> get past yet from the FreeBSD installation in the VM, so downloading >>> distfiles (Perl, for example) isn't currently possible. >>> >>> I created a shared folder in VMWare to store distfiles on, but >>> apparently I need VMWare tools installed to access such a folder, >>> which brings me back to the Perl problem. >>> >>> It appears that I need samba & squid to have NT/LM authentication to >>> get through the proxy so that I can download ports & packages, but to >>> obtain packages for those I need to be able to get through the proxy >>> first. >>> >>> How do I solve this conundrum? >> >> >> You may consider obtaining the DVD ISO to upload to your ESX store; Att= ach >> it to the VM's cdrom device and boot to it which starts the installation= . >> Everything you need to build the OS is on the DVD. > > I just got that far by myself, but thanks for the suggestion anyway. > I'm afraid that not _everything_ I need is on the DVD though. > > The DVD does include pkg (from which one can extract pkg-static to > install it) and perl, but not the open-vm-tools package or the > compat6-amd64 that the VMWare supplied vmware-tools claims to require. > It also lacks a vmware frame-buffer for Xorg, but perhaps that is > provided by the (missing) vmware-tools package? > > There is a samba package that probably contains the necessary > libraries to use NTLM authentication, but no Squid to combine those > into a local NTLM-enabled proxy to get past the company proxy. > > This is my first time dabbling in proxy-waters and weird Windows > authentication schemes, so I'm a little reliant on tutorials I found > on the internet and the few around all use squid and samba... If there > are other (probably better) ways, I'd love to hear them. Perhaps I > don't need Squid? > > Cheers, > Alban. Curl can do NTLM auth - perhaps some hackery to use that instead of fetch? Kurt
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