Can't get Git to work over TeamViewer VPN / Proxy

Question

I have a work computer, which connects to a Git repository on my work network.

I've installed TeamViewer on that machine and I'm using TeamViewer VPN to connect to that computer from my personal laptop.

I'm also running a proxy application called ReDirProxy in order to access my work network from my laptop, including the Git server.

I can connect to the Git server through SSH using PuTTY, by specifying the proxy settings in PuTTY prior to connecting. I've saved these settings under a profile called 'Git'.

I can also connect to other servers on the work network through my browser. So clearly there's nothing wrong with the VPN or proxy per-se.

However when I try to access git through the command-line it never seems to work.

• If I try to ping the git server, it doesn't work.
• If I try to clone from the git server, using the PuTTY profile name (e.g. git clone git@Git:myrepo.git), git just hangs at the command-line.
• If I open a git repository which has remotes configured to point at my PuTTY profile (e.g. git@Git.myrepo.git) and try to do a pull or fetch, git just hangs at the command-line.

I've tried specifying my proxy server for git, using the git config --global http.proxy xyz:123 command, but to no avail.

I don't understand why Git doesn't work, but PuTTY SSH works. Is there some configuration that PuTTY has, so that it works through my VPN/Proxy, which isn't getting through to git?

What am I doing wrong here?

Answer 1

OK, got it working now! Just had to use different proxy software - FreeProxy Internet Suite from Handcrafted Software.

I believe the difference was the ReDirProxy didn't support NTLM, whereas FreeProxy does. (I ticked the box to enable NTLM in the proxy settings window on FreeProxy.)