No solution was given before. But Now I have one. As you said access right is a step to look for. My squid user did have the correct right that why I was unable to access the smb.conf. Quite strange the error message that as nothing to do about access rigth. anyway thanks. regards Arno Streuli Henrik Nordstrom <hno@squid-cache. To: Arno.STREULI@xxxxxxxxxxxxx org> cc: squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Error in ntlm_auth 30.09.2005 22:49 On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 Arno.STREULI@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > ntlm_auth: error opening config file /usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf. Error > was Illegal byte sequence Have seen this error mentioned before. Don't remember what the resolution was. Try searching in google or similar. > but when I try to do that by hand: > bash-3.00# /opt/samba/bin/ntlm_auth --helper-protocol=squid-2.5-basic > d-bi1\admin Axr5 > OK Also try as you cache_effective_user. Many things are different when running as root. Regards Henrik ****************************************************************** DISCLAIMER - E-MAIL ------------------- The information contained in this E-Mail is intended for the named recipient(s). It may contain certain privileged and confidential information, or information which is otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not copy,distribute or take any action in reliance on this information ******************************************************************