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 >>-- >Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple >Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html >Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html >FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ >>> -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/