Re: [squid-users] Squid and Active Directory

From: Matt Alexander <lowbassman@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 08:41:39 -0700

On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 11:41:21 +0100 (CET), Henrik Nordstrom
<hno@squid-cache.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, John wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the reply. Does this mean that I need to set up and run samba
> > server on the squid box?
>
> Only if you want to use the ntlm authentication scheme.
>
> Provided you are happy with the basic authentication scheme then the LDAP
> helpers works just fine with Active Directory. Active Directory is a quite

The only real drawback to this is that users will be provided with a
login prompt every time they launch their web browser, whereas NTLM
will do all the authentication in the background without the user
aware of it.
~M

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