Hi, I'm using Redhat 8.0 + Squid2.5.STABLE1 + Samba2.2.8a ( winbind ) in my testing network. Sometimes IE will prompt authentiation window again anad again after I enter username and password. It's very annoying. After checking access.log and cache.log , I found the system is asking for more ntlmauthenticator processes. My testing network has only two testing Windows 2000 machines, I can't understand why all ntlmauthenticator processes are busy. If I'm going to implement for 500 Users , how many ntlmauthenticator processes I should specify in squid.conf . Please give me your advice. Thanks in advance.
access.log : 1061257129.406 1 192.168.1.18 TCP_DENIED/407 1816 GET http://www.coolbid.com/event/523/images/index_01.gif - NONE/- text/html 1061257129.407 1 192.168.1.18 TCP_DENIED/407 1816 GET http://www.coolbid.com/event/523/images/index_03.gif - NONE/- text/html 1061257129.407 1 192.168.1.18 TCP_DENIED/407 1816 GET http://www.coolbid.com/event/523/images/index_02.gif - NONE/- text/html 1061257129.508 1 192.168.1.18 TCP_DENIED/407 1810 GET http://www.coolbid.com/event/523/images/spacer.gif - NONE/- text/html 1061260522.169 973 192.168.1.18 TCP_MISS/200 327 POST http://clients.babylon.co.il/kms/kms2.cgi arflex-tpe\eric.pan DIRECT/192.114.174.70 text/html ALLOW cache.log : 2003/08/19 09:24:03| WARNING: All ntlmauthenticator processes are busy. 2003/08/19 09:24:03| WARNING: 5 pending requests queued 2003/08/19 09:24:03| Consider increasing the number of ntlmauthenticator processes in your config file. 2003/08/19 09:24:03| helperStatefulDefer: None available. squid.conf : auth_param ntlm program /usr/local/squid/libexec/wb_ntlmauth auth_param ntlm children 10 auth_param ntlm max_challenge_reuses 0 auth_param ntlm max_challenge_lifetime 2 minutes auth_param basic program /usr/local/squid/libexec/wb_auth auth_param basic children 10 auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours Regards, Eric ==================================================== Eric Pan Arflex Corporation 2F, No.25, Lane 583, Rueiguang Road, Neihu District, Taipei, 114, Taiwan ====================================================
