That's too bad... I've set up numerous Bluecoat proxies and they do have this capability. But of course, you're paying about $50k usd / box. -----Original Message----- From: Guido Serassio [mailto:guido.serassio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2009 4:00 AM To: Johnson, S; squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: NTLM and transparent/interception confusion Hi, At 20.06 31/12/2008, Johnson, S wrote: >I've been doing a lot of reading on this... I've got the proxy working >in either of these two modes: >1) As a browser configuration proxy >2) with http_port 3128 transparent, in redirected mode > >I've got NTLM authentication working just fine with #1 above. However, >with #2 I never get a password prompt. I don't really care about >transparency; I just want to authenticate users that are outbound >without having to configure their browser. > >I asked this question a couple of months back and there are people >stating that they are doing the authentication with transparent mode. >Some of the references I've found in my searches also seem to >corroborate the possibility of this working (but it's not working for >me). However, in the documentation it seems that this should not be >possible. Am I barking up the wrong tree or is this truly possible? You cannot. Youa are mixing two very different and incompatible things: - Transparent/intercepting proxy - NTLM transparent (silent) authentication, also known as Windows integrated authentication http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/InterceptionProxy#head-e56904dd4dfe 0e21e5c2903473c473d401533ac7 Regards and happy New Year Guido - ======================================================== Guido Serassio Acme Consulting S.r.l. - Microsoft Certified Partner Via Lucia Savarino, 1 10098 - Rivoli (TO) - ITALY Tel. : +39.011.9530135 Fax. : +39.011.9781115 Email: guido.serassio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx WWW: http://www.acmeconsulting.it/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.