At my office the IT department is super paranoid. They run a NTLM Authentication server, making the Internet in-accessable, or at least very hard to reach for power users. Many programs and even Linux distributions (gentoo?) almost awlays require direct access to the Internet in order to download necessary updates and files. Recently I had the need to installed the Subversion (SVN) Plugin for Eclipse but Eclipse doesn’t work when behind an NTML authentication servers. It appears to let you enter a proxy host, port and username with password but it doesn’t seems to work.

The Solution
My solution uses NTLMAP as a local proxy server which re-sends and receives requests to a NTLM Authentication server. The NTLM proxy server has no clue what is really going through it as everything is masked by the ntlmaps proxy. Side note: It’s really cool for those pesky networks where they block the word “gecko” in the user-agent string making FireFox broken…

Steps
1. Install NTMLMaps, configure it, and test it using a web browser.

2. Configure Eclipse to use your local proxy server.
2a. With Eclipse open goto the Window menu, select prefrences.
2b. Then click the General tab, then Network Connections.
2c. Type in localhost, and the port you used in NTLMaps.

3. Goto Help->Install Software and try installing an Eclipse plugin.

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