hello. i'm using samba 3.0.24-3 and squid-2.6.STABLE13-1 with fc6. my smb.conf [global] workgroup = DOMAIN netbios name = NETSERVER server string = PROXY SERVER load printers = no log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 500 realm = DOMAIN.COM security = ads auth methods = winbind password server = server.ddomain.com winbind separator = + encrypt passwords = yes winbind cache time = 15 winbind enum users = yes winbind enum groups = yes winbind use default domain = yes idmap uid = 10000-20000 idmap gid = 10000-20000 local master = no os level = 233 domain master = no preferred master = no domain logons = no wins server = 10.0.0.249 dns proxy = no ldap ssl = no my squid.conf http_port 3128 hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ? acl QUERY urlpath_regex cgi-bin \? cache deny QUERY acl apache rep_header Server ^Apache broken_vary_encoding allow apache access_log /var/log/squid/access.log squid auth_param ntlm program /usr/bin/ntlm_auth --helper-protocol=squid-2.5-ntlmssp auth_param ntlm children 10 auth_param basic program /usr/bin/ntlm_auth --helper-protocol=squid-2.5-basic auth_param basic children 10 auth_param basic realm Proxy Server auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours auth_param basic casesensitive off authenticate_cache_garbage_interval 10 seconds authenticate_ttl 0 seconds refresh_pattern ^ftp: 1440 20% 10080 refresh_pattern ^gopher: 1440 0% 1440 refresh_pattern . 0 20% 4320 negative_ttl 5 minutes 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 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 CONNECT method CONNECT http_access allow manager localhost http_access deny manager http_access deny !Safe_ports http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports http_reply_access allow all icp_access allow all external_acl_type nt_group %LOGIN /usr/lib/squid/wbinfo_group.pl acl AllowedWindowsGroups external nt_group internet http_access allow AllowedWindowsGroups http_access deny all the command wbinfo -u and -g works fine. no problems to join the domain. my problem is some users when connecting msn messenger specially don't register in the acces.log only the username of the user. sometimes access to other sites don't log only the username too. some sugestion to fix this? Thanks Wilson Galafassi