How can I configure Internet proxy on VM?

Question

I am running Ubuntu 10.04 on VMPlayer within Windows 7. Our corporation has just enforced an internet proxy, let's call it internet.largecompany.com:8443 for the sake of argument, and we can no longer get access to outside sites.

We can get access to the internet without any issues on Windows but no access at all from Ubuntu. I've tried changing the proxy settings in System>Preferences>Network Proxy along with providing my username and password but to no avail.

Any ideas? Anything I should try?

Solution

Answering my own question here.

I also should have added to my original question that we require authentication on the internet.largecompany.com:8443 proxy i.e. we get prompted for username and password.

Therefore, the way we resolved was to use the open source network tool Cntlm Authentication Proxy. This worked perfectly for our requirements.

Comments

[Milad Faridnia]

Could you please provide some explanation about Cntlm configration