Hello Henrik. My Macintosh computer is not part of the domain. In the proxy configuration of all Macintosh computers, in System Preference, I set the mydomain\username and the password of the user. This give me the opportunity to authentify the user automatically and not waiting the user to enter a username and password. I have a macintosh computer by user and they always use the same. It's the reason why I can force the username and password of the user in System Preference. The user get authenticated and is able to get his web page, but the Helper is still lock. The lock get release after a period of time. One of the 4-5 helper that the Macintosh is using can be release 10 secondes later, and the other can be release after 25 - 30 - 45 seconds. Do I need to use an another authentication helper for my Macintosh user ? I hope not. Thanks. Jonathan IT Technician. > From: henrik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To: jonathan_chretien@xxxxxxxxxxx > CC: squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 22:22:27 +0200 > Subject: Re: Apple Computers jam my NTLM Helpers. > > tor 2008-06-05 klockan 15:16 -0400 skrev Jonathan Chretien: > >> Yesterday, I decided to configure my Macintosh computers, about 11 on my proxy. Everytime a Macintosh contact the internet to access a web site, the Macintosh jam around 4-5 NTLM helper for a period of 10 second to 1 minutes for each. After, the helper are released by the Macintosh Computer one by one. You can understand now the problem that I got. With only 15 helpers and 11 macs on the internet at lunch time, all helpers are jammed in a status of R (RESERVED OR DEFERRED). All other users need to wait until a NTLM helper is available. This cause, a wait time to high and squid crash and restart. > > Are the Macintosh computers members of the Windows domain? > >> Why the macintosh computer jam my NTLM helper when our Windows >> computers are working fine and don't jam any NTLM helpers like the >> Macintosh computer do ? > > Probably the macs is showing a login dialog.. this occupies a NTLM > helper until the dialog is completed or the connection times out. > > This is one of many reasons why you need very many NTLM helpers for > reliable operation. It's too dependent on the clients behaving well.. > > Regards > Henrik > _________________________________________________________________
