RE: [squid-users] Squid versus Microsoft ISA - Query RE: Squid Re porting and NT Authentication

From: Tom Martin <tom@dont-contact.us>
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 14:58:26 -0000

I've just built a squid 2.5 proxy server running on Gentoo Linux with Samba
3 that succesfully does NTLM authentication against our Windows 2000 AD for
both user and group authentication.

The documentation on this isn't great, particularly on the Samba side - the
biggest problems I had was not realising I needed Samba 3 in order to do AD
(as opposed to NT) authentication, and not realising I had to set Domain
Logons in smb.conf to NO in order to succesfully do group lookups. Once its
up, it works fine though.

-----Original Message-----
From: jonathan_hughes@goodyear.co.za
[mailto:jonathan_hughes@goodyear.co.za]
Sent: 08 December 2003 07:18
To: robertc@squid-cache.org
Cc: Dave Augustus; Squid Users
Subject: Re: [squid-users] Squid versus Microsoft ISA - Query RE: Squid
Reporting and NT Authentication

List,

we are an MS ISA shop that has no problem/bias testing or using Squid - and
may go that way:

My querys are:

(1) Can you Squid pro's advise me on the reporting options avaliable to
Squid. I demo'd Squid last week Friday to management and they wanted to
know what reporting options Squid offered. I had been so caught up in the
tech of setting up Squid that I had not checked this before the meeting. It
is not a train smash - any advice on third party tools/options?

(2) If I have my Squid server setup as a single primary parent cache server
in a fully Microsoft Domain based network - CAN I authenticate my Squid
users via Samba etc. and are there support documents avaliable for this. I
run Squid2.5 on Red Hat 9. The domain controllers are all pure MS
BDC/PDC's. Our setup is quite simple. SAMBA documentation suggests that
this is only possible if the PDC/BDC's areLinux boxes. Looks as if this
functionality is not yet built into SAMBA 3.0.0. Any advice/leads?

Your responses as always will be appreciated.

Thank you,
                                                                           
                          Jonathan Hughes
                                                                           
                          Tech Support Specialist
                                                                           
                          Goodyear South Africa
                                                                           

 

                      Robert Collins

                      <robertc@squid-c To: Dave Augustus
<davea@support.kcm.org>
                      ache.org> cc: Squid Users
<squid-users@squid-cache.org>
                                               Subject: Re: [squid-users]
Squid versus Microsoft ISA
                      2003/12/05 10:57

                      PM

 

On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 02:41, Dave Augustus wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> Realizing that most on this list are biased against Microsoft, I am
> asking you to put your biases aside and answer this question:
>
> Why should I as a manager consider using Squid over Microsoft ISA in an
> (almost) entirely Microsoft shop if neither solution is deployed yet?

Additionally, I'd like to add that
*) squid runs on NT (many thanks to Guido who maintains the native port)
*) squid is considerablly more tunable than ISA's proxy facilities.
*) I don't think it's fair to say that 'most on this list' are biased
against Microsoft. The list is here for folk who use squid, and many
(I'd have to say 90+%) support or interoperate with Microsoft
clients/servers and the like.

Rob

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