Hello Mike apologize me for my english. I've had the same problem but I've tried to resolve that. I want to ask you how many children do you set for MSWIN_NTLM_AUTH? and how many processes of MSWIN_CHECK_LM_GROUP do you have in task manager? I ask you this becouse at the begining of my problem i tried to set the children for the NTLM helper to 50 but i didn't resolve the problem. If you try this you wil see that there are 50 NTLM Helper but only 5 MSWIN_CHECK_LM_GROUP!!! this is the problem. The only way to increase MSWIN_CHECK_LM_GROUP is to set the acl in this way external_acl_type NT_local_group children=100 %LOGIN c:/squid/libexec/mswin_check_lm_group.exe note the children parameter that you can set as you like. Try this reguards from Bruno Mike Mitchell-3 wrote: > > I've set up squid on a Windows 2003 server using the pre-compiled binaries > from http://squid.acmeconsulting.it/download/squid-2.6.STABLE17-bin.zip > NTLM authentication consistently works for some users, but consistently > fails for others. > Here's what debugging shows on a failure: > > ... > > 2008/01/04 18:38:09| helperStatefulOpenServers: Starting 5 > 'mswin_ntlm_auth.exe' processes > mswin_ntlm_auth[5192]: c:/squid/libexec/mswin_ntlm_auth.exe build Nov 27 > 2007, 21:53:46 starting up... > mswin_ntlm_auth[5192]: SSPI initialized OK > mswin_ntlm_auth[6112]: c:/squid/libexec/mswin_ntlm_auth.exe build Nov 27 > 2007, 21:53:46 starting up... > mswin_ntlm_auth[6112]: SSPI initialized OK > mswin_ntlm_auth[5368]: c:/squid/libexec/mswin_ntlm_auth.exe build Nov 27 > 2007, 21:53:46 starting up... > mswin_ntlm_auth[5368]: SSPI initialized OK > 2008/01/04 18:38:09| User-Agent logging is disabled. > 2008/01/04 18:38:09| Referer logging is disabled. > mswin_ntlm_auth[3084]: c:/squid/libexec/mswin_ntlm_auth.exe build Nov 27 > 2007, 21:53:46 starting up... > mswin_ntlm_auth[3084]: SSPI initialized OK > mswin_ntlm_auth[4160]: c:/squid/libexec/mswin_ntlm_auth.exe build Nov 27 > 2007, 21:53:46 starting up... > mswin_ntlm_auth[4160]: SSPI initialized OK > > ... > > mswin_ntlm_auth[5192]: Got 'YR > TlRMTVNTUAABAAAABlIAAAYABgAmAAAABgAGACAAAABEMTU2MDRDQVJZTlQ=' from Squid > mswin_ntlm_auth[5192]: attempting SSPI challenge retrieval > mswin_ntlm_auth[5192]: Got it > mswin_ntlm_auth[5192]: sending 'TT > TlRMTVNTUAACAAAABgAGADgAAAAGAoECX74wIorjbCkAAAAAAAAAAHwAfAA+AAAABQLODgAAAA9DQVJZTlQCAAwAQwBBAFIAWQBOAFQAAQAQAE4AQQBNAEUAUwBSAFYAMgAEABQAbgBhAC4AcwBhAHMALgBjAG8AbQADACYATgBBAE0ARQBTAFIAVgAyAC4AbgBhAC4AcwBhAHMALgBjAG8AbQAFAA4AUwBBAFMALgBDAE8ATQAAAAAA' > to squid > mswin_ntlm_auth[5192]: Got 'KK > TlRMTVNTUAADAAAAGAAYAFIAAAAAAAAAagAAAAYABgBAAAAABgAGAEYAAAAGAAYATAAAAAAAAABqAAAABlIAAENBUllOVE1BQkxBS0QxNTYwNKWk6TgT5BCIQBjSilR+VqBRLF/GRRzxhg==' > from Squid > mswin_ntlm_auth[5192]: checking domain: 'CARYNT', user: 'MABLAK' > mswin_ntlm_auth[6112]: Got 'YR > TlRMTVNTUAABAAAABlIAAAYABgAmAAAABgAGACAAAABEMTU2MDRDQVJZTlQ=' from Squid > mswin_ntlm_auth[6112]: attempting SSPI challenge retrieval > mswin_ntlm_auth[6112]: Got it > mswin_ntlm_auth[6112]: sending 'TT > TlRMTVNTUAACAAAABgAGADgAAAAGAoEC1yrM0oj/3vQAAAAAAAAAAHwAfAA+AAAABQLODgAAAA9DQVJZTlQCAAwAQwBBAFIAWQBOAFQAAQAQAE4AQQBNAEUAUwBSAFYAMgAEABQAbgBhAC4AcwBhAHMALgBjAG8AbQADACYATgBBAE0ARQBTAFIAVgAyAC4AbgBhAC4AcwBhAHMALgBjAG8AbQAFAA4AUwBBAFMALgBDAE8ATQAAAAAA' > to squid > mswin_ntlm_auth[6112]: Got 'KK > TlRMTVNTUAADAAAAGAAYAFIAAAAAAAAAagAAAAYABgBAAAAABgAGAEYAAAAGAAYATAAAAAAAAABqAAAABlIAAENBUllOVE1BQkxBS0QxNTYwNOqSkQJvL12+T28RjkSZbHD0GEvSApUMpA==' > from Squid > mswin_ntlm_auth[6112]: checking domain: 'CARYNT', user: 'MABLAK' > > The last line shown is currently the last line in the cache.log file. > Notice that there is not a 'Login attempt had result' line. My guess is > that the SSP_ValidateNTLMCredentials() call in libntlmssp.c is hanging. > That routine calls several Windows routines, but I can't tell which one is > hanging. Both process IDs 5192 and 6112 are still running. > > Has anyone seen a problem like this? > > -- Mike.Mitchell@xxxxxxx<mailto:Mike.Mitchell@xxxxxxx> > > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/NTLM-problems-tp14719771p20396458.html Sent from the Squid - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.