Hi All, I am getting problem when doing group filtering using from windows 2003 server. I am using squid-2.5.STABLE3 and samba-3.0.0 i am able to authenticate all the users perfectly with out group varification, when i want to do group filtering it is not applying . can some help me in implimenting the group filtering in squid using windows 2003 group. The below are the configuration details of my squid, wbinfo_grou and samba files. Squid.conf: http_port 3128 cache_effective_user squid cache_effective_group squid hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ? acl QUERY urlpath_regex cgi-bin \? no_cache deny QUERY refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080 refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440 refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320 visible_hostname NTSP1 debug_options ALL,1 32,2 28,9 auth_param ntlm program /usr/bin/ntlm_auth --helper-protocol=squid-2.5-ntlmssp auth_param ntlm children 5 auth_param ntlm max_challenge_reuses 0 auth_param ntlm max_challenge_lifetime 2 minutes auth_param basic program /usr/bin/ntlm_auth --helper-protocol=squid-2.5-basic auth_param basic children 5 auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours external_acl_type NT_global_group %LOGIN /etc/squid/wbinfo_group.pl acl AllowedNTUsers external NT_global_group "/etc/squid/allowedntgroups" acl LoggedInUsers proxy_auth REQUIRED acl all src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 acl manager proto cache_object acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/255.255.255.255 acl to_localhost dst 127.0.0.0/8 acl SSL_ports port 443 563 acl Safe_ports port 80 # http acl Safe_ports port 21 # ftp acl Safe_ports port 443 563 # https, snews acl Safe_ports port 70 # gopher acl Safe_ports port 210 # wais acl Safe_ports port 1025-65535 # unregistered ports acl Safe_ports port 280 # http-mgmt acl Safe_ports port 488 # gss-http acl Safe_ports port 591 # filemaker acl Safe_ports port 777 # multiling http acl CONNECT method CONNECT http_access allow AllowedNTUsers http_access allow LoggedInUsers http_access deny !AllowedNTUsers http_access deny !LoggedInUsers http_access allow manager localhost http_access deny manager http_access deny !Safe_ports http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports http_access deny all http_reply_access allow all icp_access allow all coredump_dir /var/cache/squid cache_dir ufs /var/cache/squid 100 16 256 cache_access_log /var/log/squid/access.log cache_log /var/log/squid/cache.log cache_store_log /var/log/squid/store.log =========================================== smb.conf [global] workgroup = WK3 netbios name = WK3 realm = WK3.SERVER security = ads encrypt passwords = yes password server = digital.wk3.server # separate domain and username with /, like DOMAIN/username winbind separator = / # use UIDs from 10000 to 20000 for domain users idmap uid = 10000-20000 idmap gid = 10000-20000 # allow enumeration of winbind users and groups winbind enum users = yes winbind enum groups = yes winbind use default domain = yes ====================================================== wbinfo_group.pl # external_acl uses shell style lines in it's protocol #require 'shellwords.pl'; # Disable output buffering $|=1; sub debug { # Uncomment this to enable debugging #print STDERR "@_\n"; } # # Check if a user belongs to a group # sub check { local($user, $group) = @_; $groupSID = `/usr/bin/wbinfo -n "$group"`; #because the new wbinfo -n returns also the group number #we do the following $groupSID = substr($groupSID,0,index($groupSID," ",0)); $groupGID = `/usr/bin/wbinfo -Y $groupSID`; chop $groupGID; &debug( "User: -$user-\nGroup: -$group-\nSID: -$groupSID- \nGID: -$groupGID-"); # return 'OK' if(`/usr/bin/wbinfo -r \Q$user\E` =~ /^$groupGID$/m); $groupmem = `/usr/bin/wbinfo -r $user`; if ($groupmem) { $groupchk = ($groupmem =~ /^$groupGID$/m); if ($groupchk) { return 'OK'; } } return 'ERR'; } # # Main loop # while (<STDIN>) { chop; &debug ("Got $_ from squid"); #H1 was added by holger @H1=split(/\s+/, $_); #printf ("User:%s\n",$H1[0]); #printf ("Group:%s\n",$H1[1]); $user = $H1[0]; $group = $H1[1]; # ($user, $group) = &shellwords; $ans = &check($user, $group); &debug ("Sending $ans to squid"); print "$ans\n"; } Thanks in advance Regards, Srinivas