Hi, I am trying to produce a squid setup as depicted in www.cdal.co.uk/Proxy2.png 2 squid instances, one running on port 3128 (frontend) and another on port 3030 (backend). 3 instances of DansGuardian running on 8080, 8081 and 8082 which act as cache peers to the frontend squid. The frontend (no caching) squid uses NTLM authentication to authenticate users. Then based upon their group (using wbinfo_group.pl) determines which cache peer they are allowed to access. My cache peers are defined as: cache_peer students.local parent 8080 0 proxy-only no-query no-netdb-exchange no-digest cache_peer staff.local parent 8081 0 proxy-only no-query no-netdb-exchange no-digest cache_peer special.local parent 8082 0 proxy-only no-query no-netdb-exchange no-digest students.local, staff.local and special.local are all entries in /etc/hosts resolving to itself I have managed to get the Dan Guardians and the backend squid to work, as these can be tested individually. NTLM Authentication is working as user's names are resolved in the access.log. My problem seems to be located in the external_acl_type as when this is commented out along with other dependent acls the squid process starts up, otherwise the following error is generated: FATAL: Bungled squid.3128.conf line 1863: acl special external ntlm_group it Squid Cache (Version 2.6.STABLE5): Terminated abnormally. the problem doesn't seem to be with this line in the config as when commented out the next line (also acl special) errors producing a similar error. My acls are defined as: 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 # https acl SSL_ports port 563 # snews acl SSL_ports port 873 # rsync acl Safe_ports port 80 # http acl Safe_ports port 21 # ftp acl Safe_ports port 443 # https 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 Safe_ports port 631 # cups acl Safe_ports port 873 # rsync acl Safe_ports port 901 # SWAT acl purge method PURGE acl CONNECT method CONNECT acl special external ntlm_group it acl staff external ntlm_group Staff acl students external ntlm_group Students acl ntlm_users proxy_auth REQUIRED With an external acl of: external_acl_type ntlm_group concurrency=0 children=5 ttl=0 % LOGIN /usr/lib/squid/wbinfo_group.pl My cache_peer_access rules are defined as: never_direct allow all #cache_peer_access students.local allow all cache_peer_access special.local allow special cache_peer_access special.local deny all cache_peer_access students.local allow students cache_peer_access students.local deny all cache_peer_access staff.local allow staff cache_peer_access staff.local deny all The commented out line is in place to check that the connection between squid and its peers works. My http_access is defined as: http_access allow ntlm_users When I run the wbinfo_group.pl script manually from the command line the script returns OK as expected and also gets the correct SID/GID when in debug mode. The system will be locked down using IP tables to prevent users from switching to the backend squid and thus skipping the authentication procedure however during testing and to avoid complexity IP tables is off. I am using Squid 2.6STABLE5, which is the packaged version from the Ubuntu repositories, with the following output for -version Squid Cache: Version 2.6.STABLE5 configure options: '--prefix=/usr' '--exec_prefix=/usr' '--bindir=/usr/sbin' '--sbindir=/usr/sbin' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib/squid' '--sysconfdir=/etc/squid' '--localstatedir=/var/spool/squid' '--datadir=/usr/share/squid' '--enable-async-io' '--with-pthreads' '--enable-storeio=ufs,aufs,coss,diskd,null' '--enable-linux-netfilter' '--enable-arp-acl' '--enable-epoll' '--enable-removal-policies=lru,heap' '--enable-snmp' '--enable-delay-pools' '--enable-htcp' '--enable-cache-digests' '--enable-underscores' '--enable-referer-log' '--enable-useragent-log' '--enable-auth=basic,digest,ntlm' '--enable-carp' '--with-large-files' 'i386-debian-linux' 'build_alias=i386-debian-linux' 'host_alias=i386-debian-linux' 'target_alias=i386-debian-linux' I am running Ubuntu Feisty Fawn 7.04. I have tried to work through this problem by looking at the FAQs and googling but to no avail. Any help would be much appreciated. Cheers, -- Sebastian Harrington Infrastructure Officer Longhill High School e: seb {at} longhill _dot_ brighton-hove _dot_ sch _dot_ uk