Dear All, i have squid Proxy server on Centos 5 working perfectly for a quite sometime and now we would like to have squid authenticating with ADS for more control . so that only users that have logged into domain are asked allowed for internet and others who dont log in have internet access denied but only local network services avaliable. i am not a professional in ADS so wd really apprecite your help i have been googling arround and tried but was only able to authenticate with squid by getting the popup window but not accept the password. i would like plain text authentication since i guess its the easiest one the setup Centos 5 Squid stable 2.6 the domain is ADS WINDOWS 2003 Domain Name: baladia.local computer name :kmun jus cut and paste some squid entries . auth_param basic program /usr/lib/squid/squid_ldap_auth -R -b "dc=baladia,dc=local" -D "cn=Administrator,cn=Users,dc=baladia,dc=local" -w "xxxx" -f sAMAccountName=%s -h 172.16.2.227 auth_param basic children 5 auth_param basic realm PROXY SERVER auth_param basic credentialsttl 5 minutes where xxxx is the administrtor password 172.16.2.227 is the IP address of the domain will the above help me to authenticate user with ADS when i log into the domain and user my browser the window pops up but when i enter the username and password it ask me the same dialog again also if i dont log into domain its the same the squid accesslog error is 1237471571.612 13 xx.xx.xx.xx TCP_DENIED/407 1761 GET http://vcs2.msg.yahoo.com/capacity testuser where testuser is the username on my domain apprecite if someone can help me with example or some links with examples thanks and really wd apprecite your kinf help if any more queries are required i be most grateful to forward them to you regards simon -- Network ADMIN ------------- KUWAIT MUNICIPALITY: -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.