> > > > would be most welcome. What are the proxying products > that could run > > > > along with iptables but which can talk with a windows > NT/2000 based user > > > > base for authentication ? Does squid provide for this ? > Okay, squid will do ftp and http proxying for you; I don't Squid can also do user authentication against a NT/2000 server. There are multiple options on how to achieve this ; you need samba. See : http://www.squid-cache.org http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-23.html http://www.hacom.nl/~richard/software/smb_auth.html Rob