Problem with connecting to proxy server...

[dooglio]

Hi there,

I was using Winamp successfully to stream MP3s from the Web (namely from MP3.COM) through a proxy server. This proxy server required authentication, so the URL I used was:

username:password@proxy.server.ip

Recently, my company switched proxy servers so that authentication happens by virtue of being logged in to our NT domain. I'm running NT 4.0 Service Pack 6.0a, and Internet Explorer and Windows Media Player both connect correcly through our proxy server. However, when I try to connect to an MP3 site using Winamp via the new proxy server, it just pops up a dialog telling me that the proxy connection was refused. I tried doing the old "username:password" trick, but that didn't work either.

Does anyone have a fix for this, or am I to abandon Winamp altogether in favor of Windows Media Player?

Thanks,

Doug Barbieri

[griffinn]

Originally posted by dooglio
Recently, my company switched proxy servers so that authentication happens by virtue of being logged in to our NT domain. I'm running NT 4.0 Service Pack 6.0a, and Internet Explorer and Windows Media Player both connect correcly through our proxy server. However, when I try to connect to an MP3 site using Winamp via the new proxy server, it just pops up a dialog telling me that the proxy connection was refused

Hmm, sounds like your new proxy is a MS Proxy Server that expects NTLM Authentication.

Find out if your admin has configured the proxy to allow Basic Authentication (rather than NTLM Auth). (If anybody in your company is using Netscape, this is probably the case. IE can talk NTLM but Netscape can't.)

If Basic Auth is allowed, then your username should probably be in the form of NTdomain\NTusername. Thus your proxy setup string for Winamp would be NTdomain\NTusername:NTpassword@proxy:port.

If your proxy is not configured to accept Basic Auth, talk to your admin. Tell a lie. Say you're using Netscape/Mozilla/Opera and can't go through the proxy. Refer them to Microsoft KB articles Q218484 and Q245237, which gives them all they need to know about configuring the proxy to allow Basic Auth.