Cntlm is an NTLM / NTLM Session Response / NTLMv2 authenticating HTTP proxy intended to help you break free from the chains of Microsoft proprietary world. You can use a free OS and honor our noble idea, but you can't hide. Once you're behind those cold steel bars of a corporate proxy server requiring NTLM authentication, you're done with. The same even applies to 3rd party Windows applications, which don't support NTLM natively. This package contain a start/stop script: /etc/rc.d/rc.cntlm If you need start cntlm at boot add the following to your /etc/rc.d/rc.local script and make sure rc.cntlm has executable permissions set: if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.cntlm ]; then /etc/rc.d/rc.cntlm start fi