Could you please wrap this up and dump it into the Squid bugzilla? Thanks, Adrian On Thu, Feb 28, 2008, Plant, Dean wrote: > I have seen this problem asked about in the archives but was not sure if > a fix was ever given. If it has I apologise for the noise. > > I had been having problems with WMP not correctly authenticating to our > proxy and came across a blog on the isaserver.org website. > > "When WMP is acting as a web proxy client (CERN) and the web proxy > server requires Windows Integrated authentication, WMP will not > auto-authenticate to the web proxy server if the web proxy server is > specified as either an FQDN or an IP address. If the web proxy server is > specified as a NetBIOS (unqualified) name, WMP will auto-authenticate > using the interactive account credentials. If the web proxy server > requires Basic or Digest authentication, an authentication prompt is > expected, regardless of how the web proxy server is specified. This > behaviour is the same if the web proxy server is obtained via an > automatic configuration (WPAD) script." > > http://blogs.isaserver.org/pouseele/2007/11/09/windows-media-player-auth > entication-prompts/ > > I changed our wpad file from IP's to the NetBIOS names and the pop-ups > have now disappeared. :-) Only problem now is that I have been testing > the squid_kerb_auth helper (with good results so far) and as you have to > specify the proxy as a FQDN, WMP is broken again :-( > > HTH > > Dean -- - Xenion - http://www.xenion.com.au/ - VPS Hosting - Commercial Squid Support - - $25/pm entry-level VPSes w/ capped bandwidth charges available in WA -
