RE: lynx-dev Problems with Lynx 2.8rel.2 under AIX 3.2.5.1.

[Leonid Pauzner]

> There is no Microsoft authentication of any kind enabled in WinGate and
> Netscape Navigator 3.01 works fine on the same machine and through the same
> proxy server software (WinGate) on which Lynx 2.8rel.2 doesn't work.
> T.T.F.N. (Ta Ta For Now!)                            ---+--BEAMRIDER----
>                                                      (address@hidden)

I am far from being an expert here, but do you have "proxy" configuration
filled in Netscape Navigator? If yes, try to configure Lynx for proxies:
it uses http_proxy, ftp_proxy,... no_proxy environment variables
(or via lynx.cfg if you have no such environments defined),
check lynx.cfg and INSTALLATION files for word "proxy",
got those files from lynx 2.8.1rel available at http://lynx.browser.org
You may also want to upgrade your Lynx to 2.8.1 or 2.8.2devXX versions,
they are known to work better for different cases including interrupting
of "Looking up..." if compiled with NSL_FORK.



> ----------
> From:  Leonid Pauzner
> Sent:  Friday, December 18, 1998 3:34 AM
> To:  address@hidden; address@hidden
> Subject:  Re: lynx-dev Problems with Lynx 2.8rel.2 under AIX 3.2.5.1.

>> I'm having a problem getting Lynx 2.8rel.2 to work under AIX 3.2.5.1 on
> an
>> RS/6000 550.  It compiles, installs, and executes just fine and it works
>> great for calling up local files via "file://localhost/"..., etc.
>  However,
>> when I try to access a web server on another machine on our LAN, it says
>> "Lookup up"..., etc. and just sits there forever (well, until I hit
>> [CTRL]+[C], anyway).  The other machine is call "chhnts1" and it's part
> of
>> a domain called "chh.dom".  It's IP address is 10.0.1.6.  The actual web

> 1) Windows NT proxy may have a Microsoft authentication enabled
>    which is not supported by lynx (there was a more detailed report on
> lynx-dev
>    during last month or two).

> 2) Probably you have a wrong network configuration on your AIX machine
>    (did you have tryed Netscape on AIX and it works OK?)

>> The web server is running on a Windows NT 4.0 Server (chhnts1).  The name
>> of the software is WinGate 2.1d.  WinGate is a web server and a proxy
>> server.  I've also tried setting up Lynx to use the WinGate proxy server
> so
>> I could access the Internet from the AIX machine (chhnts1 is connected to
>> the Internet through WinGate), but no matter what I've tried, I can't get
>> Lynx to call up anything except documents on the local host (the AIX
>> machine).

>> Anyway, I'm stuck.  Any help you could give me with getting Lynx to 1)
>> access chhnts1 via the LAN, and 2) access the Internet via the WinGate
>> proxy server on chhnts1 would be appreciated.  I suspect that if I can
> get
>> Lynx to access chhnts1 then I can get it to use WinGate to access the
>> Internet.

>> Some additional info.:

>> I have added the "www 80/tcp" and "www 80/udp" entries to the
> /etc/services
>> file on the AIX machine (if that matters).
>> I'm running DNS for the LAN on the AIX machine (not that that should
> matter
>> either).
>> The DNS works fine as does WinGate both as a web server and a proxy
> server
>> for all other applications on both of our AIX machines, or Windows NT
>> server, and all our Windows 95 workstations.
>> The Windows 95 workstations have no trouble accessing the Internet
> through
>> WinGate on chhnts1.
>> The Windows 95 workstations and both of the AIX machines have no trouble
>> accessing the Internet via FTP through WinGate on chhnts1, so I know the
>> AIX machines can work with WinGate.

>> That's all the relevant info. I have.  PLEASE HELP ME!

>> Thank you,
>> Beam Davis (address@hidden)
>> Systems Analyst Coordinator
>> Baton Rouge Health Care Corporation
>> d/b/a Capitol Home Health

>> P.S. If the syntax for specifying another port (like 8010) is different
>> under Lynx than in my examples (which, as I said, work under Internet
>> Explorer), please let me know what the proper syntax for Lynx is as well.