RE: [squid-users] Squid authentication to a Samba domain controller

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>> From: Kinkie [mailto:kinkie-squid@kinkie.it]
>> Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2007 9:11 AM
>
>> On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 07:56 +0100, Lux wrote:
>> > Hi all
>> >
>> > I'd like Squid to authenticate, possibly transparently with
>> ntlm, to a Samba
>> > Domain Controller.
>> > I found, and used in other cases, plenty of documentation about
>> doing this
>> > but with a Windows domain, via winbindd and ntlm_auth. But this
>> approach
>> > seems not to be usable when the Squid box is also a Samba
>> domain controller.
>> > Any ideas? Pointers to docs are appreciated.
>>
>> It should work just the same.
>> In what ways is your attempt failing?
>
> You're right. I simply forgot to join the Samba machine to the domain with
> net rpc join, so ntlm_auth was failing.
> I noticed that the command "wbinfo -u" gives "Error looking up domain
> users"
> on a Samba DC, whereas it returns the list of usernames when it is issued
> on
> a member server. I tried this on different Samba domain controllers too.
> This led me to think that the Samba domain controller setup was going to
> be
> different at all.
> Now I joined the machine to the domain, and ntlm_auth --username
> xxx --password xxx is working good. Unfortunately I'm not able to try the
> whole squid functionality with a real browser at the moment, but I think
> it's likely to be ok now.
>
> Thank you.
> Luigi
>
>

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