ok, just got ntlm_auth to work. you have to chown/chggrp "winbindd_privileged" dir and everything under it with the cache_effective_user -wc, on my case, is "nobody". I cannot find this info on the squid faq. I hope it would be added. -and btw, small q, how does one view "ñ" character in access.log? My name has an "ñ" char w it but it appears as "%c3%b1"... Thanks and kind regards -botp