In previous version of SafeSquid users had to enter their valid credentials for gaining access to the internet. It depended on what authenticating server the proxy was configured to authenticate users from. New version ntlm-RC2.0 allows using many authenticating servers like an Active Directory, LDAP, Radius, POP3, MySQL, Unix, etc.

SafeSquid Linux software supports NTLM authentication, or Single Sign On. Here clients can identify themselves without sending password to the server.

Windows version 3.2.1.0 can enable/disable NTLM authentication. This option is inactive now and will be available in the next version which is going to be released in January 2010.

Both new SafeSquid software for Linux and Windows allow tight integration with LDAP based Directory Services. New LDAP Sub-System (LSS) make it simple to integrate to AD / LDAP server.

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The software giant has earned a notorious reputation over the years for missing its release targets. And it looks as if it will be business as usual for Windows XP, which is the successor to Windows Millennium Edition and Windows 2000 Professional, formerly code-named Whistler.

But Office XP, the product formerly known as Office 10, seems to be more on track, testers said.

Microsoft announced earlier this month that it plans to brand the 2001 versions of its flagship Windows and Office products with the XP moniker. XP stands for “experience” and is intended to help differentiate the forthcoming Web-enabled versions of the products from the current versions of Windows 2000 and Office 2000.

Various Web sites that closely track Windows developments reported over the weekend that Microsoft is preparing to deliver within days a near-final beta of the next version of Office for Windows, which the company recently designated Office XP. Testers corroborated those reports.

“We’ve just received word that Microsoft is preparing their release of the Corporate Preview Beta (RC 1) to the public,” read a notice posted Tuesday on the ActiveWin site.

ActiveWin added that some testers already have received “Corporate Preview Beta” packages, which are set to expire in August 2001.

Microsoft declined to comment on RC 1 availability. A spokeswoman reiterated, however, that the company is on track to deliver the final, shipping version of Office XP by June.

The same may not be true on the Windows XP side of the house. While testers expected Microsoft to deliver the eagerly awaited Beta 2 version of Windows XP before the end of February, and possibly as early as Feb. 19, it now seems that Beta 2 will not be released until mid-March.

A posting on the WinInfo Windows enthusiast site quotes from what it claims is an internal e-mail message from a Windows program manager to the rest of the Whistler team. The message notified the team that they were not meeting their internal goals, resulting in a two-week postponement of the release of Beta 2.

A Microsoft spokeswoman declined to comment on any beta release dates for Windows XP, saying only that the company is on track to deliver Beta 2 in the first quarter of 2001. Microsoft still plans to ship the desktop versions of Windows XP for consumer and business users before the end of 2001, she said.

The spokeswoman also would not confirm the authenticity of the memo. Some testers were surprised that Microsoft wasn’t ready to pull the trigger on Windows XP, given that company executives called last week’s press and analyst Windows XP preview its “Windows XP launch.”

“Microsoft probably wanted to include more bug fixes and improve some additional features for Beta 2, and they needed the two-week period to accomplish that,” speculated one Windows XP tester who requested anonymity.

Another tester had a harsher assessment as to what’s holding up Beta 2. “It’s still pretty buggy, the help is still missing, and beta tester feedback has been pretty negative regarding the ‘cartoony’ look of the new UI (user interface),” said the tester, who spoke on condition of anonymity. The tester added that he happened to like the new, streamlined “Luna” interface that Microsoft showed off at the Windows XP preview in Seattle last week.

The WinInfo site noted that Microsoft needs to adhere fairly closely to its Windows XP timetable to be able to get PC makers to preload the operating system release on new computers in time for the 2001 holiday season. Typically, once Microsoft delivers “gold,” or final, Windows code to PC makers, another few weeks to two months is required to get the software preloaded onto the machines.

What is LDAP Browser/Editor ?

The LDAP Browser/Editor (LBE) provides a user-friendly Windows Explorer-like interface to LDAP directories with tightly integrated browsing and editing capabilities. It is entirely written in Java with the help of the JFC (SwingSet) and JNDI class libraries. It connects to LDAP v2 and v3 servers. What’s new in 2.8.1?

• Improved SSL integration.
• Improved DnD and copy-and-paste interface.
• A number of bug fixes and UI improvements.
• A couple of new attribute editors/viewers.

Features:

• Browsing, searching and editing of the DIT.
  • Browsing
    • easy navigation through the hierarchical DIT
    • viewing of entries’ contents
  • Editing
    • adding, removing, modifying and editing of a single entry or an attribute
    • copying, renaming, deleting, and moving entries or entire sub trees inDIT
  • Searching
    • search results can be saved into an LDIF file
• LDIF support. Entire trees and single entries can be easily exported to and imported from LDIF.
• Object templates. Object templates are used for creating and adding new entries. The templates can be manually or automatically (from existing entries) created.
• Binary value support. Attribute contents can be saved or loaded from a file.
• LDAP v3 aware. Handles and manages referrals, allows for specifying and displaying operational attributes and also for retreiving the naming contexts from the server root DSE.
• SSL support.
• Drag and drop, copy-and-paste interface. Allows for copying and pasting or dragging and dropping entires or attributes between multiple instances or within a single instance of the browser.
• Named sessions. Allows for working with LDAP severs with different configurations.
• Attribute viewers/editors. Each attribute can be associated with a particular viewer/editor that helps to display/edit the contents of the attribute in a specific manner.
  • Built-in viewers:
    • CertificateViewer for displaying certificate information
    • ImageViewer for displaying any gif or jpg images
    • PasswordEditor for verifying and generating MD5, SHA and Unix Crypt passwords
  • Custom viewers:
    • can be written by users and easily plugged-in into the browser
• Applet support. The browser can be ran as a singed or unsinged applet within a web browser.

How do I get the LBE 2.8.1 software?

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