[Samba] Samba 3 beta 3 helpers and squid?

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Wed Aug 6 21:52:03 GMT 2003


On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 01:22, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
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> On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 daniel.jarboe at custserv.com wrote:
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> > I'm trying the new RHEL 3 beta, which comes with samba 3 beta 3, and
> > squid 2.5.STABLE3.  Both samba and squid seem appropriately compiled...
> > and I'm using the same config files as samba 2.2.8a and squid
> > 2.5.stable3 (which worked), but windows authentication with the helpers
> > is failing.
> > 
> > I asked the squid list first, and got
> > "Samba 3 supports Basic and NTLM authentication for Squid and many 
> > other programs. See the Samba release notes (I think).
> > 
> > With Samba 3 you DO NOT use the helpers shipped with Squid. Samba 3 
> > includes it's own authentication helper."
> > 
> > Yet I find no references to samba's own authentication helper in the
> > README or HOWTO-Collection.  What authentication helpers should I be
> > using?
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> It's the ntlm_auth tool I think.  Andrew Bartlet would know.

Yep - and I really should doco it better...

ntlm_auth --helper-protocol=xyz

where for squid xyz is one of:

squid-2.4-basic
squid-2.5-basic
squid-2.5-ntlmssp

The last one is the NTLM helper, naturally. 

Andrew Bartlett

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