On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 11:44, Yimin Chen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I saw on the Squid documentation that Squid supports load balancing between
> domain controllers for NTLM authentication. I am wondering how was that
> achieved considering now squid is using Samba's ntlm_auth tool to
> authentication the user? The password server is specified in the Samba
> configuration files statically, does Squid changes the configuration file
> in the run time to make winbindd to use different domain controllers each
> time to load balance?
>
> I would really appreciate if you could clarify for me!
Squid plays no role in configuring Samba, it only uses ntlm_auth, and expects Samba to be correctly (and independently) configured.
The references to load balancing are, I think, to the old helpers, which both imposed a much higher load on the domain controllers, and contacted them directly (using a basic SMB library known as smbval).
If I understand correctly, the ntlm_auth tool will only fail-over between configured domain controllers, instead of load balancing, right? So if an application using ntlm_auth would like to implement load balancing, it would have to change the smb.conf in run-time?
Thanks, Yimin
Andrew Bartlett
