On Wednesday 06 September 2006 19:12, Marius Roets wrote:
On Wednesday 06 September 2006 16:36, PerfectReign wrote:
This might be the same problem I am having. I never thought of the firewall since I could manually download the files without a problem. I will try it at home tonight and confirm if this might be the case. I only seem to be having problems with packman though.
Hmm..I wonder. I had been following your thread with interest, and was curious as to the source of your issues. Do try this and let us know. I just got to work and gave SMART a shot (after opeining up my bluecoat credentials). Sure enough, it failed with a really long ugly message. :)
Well, I just confirmed, though I'll be damned if I understand it. It works perfectly from home. I never suspected a firewall because : 1) It used to work just fine (ok this is weak) 2) I can manually download the file via http (which I assume is what SMART is using. 3) Other repositories are fine, only Packman doesn't work.
Your symptoms seem to be different though, but I think it is fair to assume that SMART has some problems with firewalls. Don't know what to do about it though, as I know little (read nothing) of firewalls.
Smart also uses mirrors, and some of these may use other protocols, in particular ftp. If your firewall blocks this (normal for corp) it might throw a fit. -- Steve Boddy