Hello all, I really get a strange ( maybe not ?? ) problem. I get Squid 2.7.4 running on Solaris 8 with Samba 3.0.32. My clients are essentially running Windows XP SP2 with IE6. authentication scheme is exclusively based on ntlm so this is the reason why winbindd is also running, smbd and nmbd are not running because I think this is not needed. this is all working fine but I randomly get thousands of lines appearing in cache.log file .. see below what I get. [2008/12/04 10:10:57, 0] utils/ntlm_auth.c:winbind_pw_check(515) Login for user [DOMAIN]\[user]@[desktop] failed due to [winbind client not authorized to use winbindd_pam_auth_crap. Ensure permissions on /var/l ib/samba/winbindd_privileged are set correctly.] process squid is running as user squid and group squidg so afaik permissions below are correct .. 342924 1 drwxr-x--- 5 root squidg 512 Dec 4 03:36 /var/lib/samba 354946 1 drwxr-x--- 4 root squidg 512 Nov 18 01:34 /var/lib/samba/locks 360979 1 drwxr-x--- 2 root squidg 512 Nov 18 01:34 /var/lib/samba/locks/printing 366989 1 drwxr-x--- 2 root squidg 512 Nov 18 01:34 /var/lib/samba/locks/winbindd_privileged 342930 8 -rw-r----- 1 root squidg 8192 Dec 4 03:37 /var/lib/samba/gencache.tdb 342932 1 -rw-r----- 1 root squidg 696 Nov 18 01:34 /var/lib/samba/idmap_cache.tdb 342933 1 -rw-r----- 1 root squidg 696 Dec 3 17:35 /var/lib/samba/messages.tdb 342935 56 -rw------- 1 root root 57344 Dec 3 17:36 /var/lib/samba/winbindd_cache.tdb 342936 29752 -rw-r----- 1 root squidg 30441472 Dec 4 09:58 /var/lib/samba/netsamlogon_cache.tdb 138380 1 drwxr-x--- 2 root squidg 512 Dec 3 17:35 /var/lib/samba/winbindd_privileged 138381 0 srwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Dec 3 17:35 /var/lib/samba/winbindd_privileged/pipe 222599 1 drwxr-x--- 2 root squidg 512 Dec 4 03:36 /var/lib/samba/smb_krb5 342937 1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 268 Dec 4 03:36 /var/lib/samba/smb_krb5/krb5.conf.EUROPE I did not find any explanation right now except applying same security settings on directories again and reloading process squid. We are already running squid more than 3 years and never got the problem before .. Can somebody really help me because each time we encounter this issue hundreds of my users are impacted. many thanks for your help. ----------------------------------------------------------------- ATTENTION: The information in this electronic mail message is private and confidential, and only intended for the addressee. Should you receive this message by mistake, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, reproduction, distribution or use of this message is strictly prohibited. Please inform the sender by reply transmission and delete the message without copying or opening it. Messages and attachments are scanned for all viruses known. If this message contains password-protected attachments, the files have NOT been scanned for viruses by the ING mail domain. Always scan attachments before opening them. -----------------------------------------------------------------