List, we are an MS ISA shop that has no problem/bias testing or using Squid - and may go that way:
My querys are:
(1) Can you Squid pro's advise me on the reporting options avaliable to
Squid. I demo'd Squid last week Friday to management and they wanted to
know what reporting options Squid offered. I had been so caught up in the
tech of setting up Squid that I had not checked this before the meeting. It
is not a train smash - any advice on third party tools/options?
(2) If I have my Squid server setup as a single primary parent cache server
in a fully Microsoft Domain based network - CAN I authenticate my Squid
users via Samba etc. and are there support documents avaliable for this. I
run Squid2.5 on Red Hat 9. The domain controllers are all pure MS
BDC/PDC's. Our setup is quite simple. SAMBA documentation suggests that
this is only possible if the PDC/BDC's areLinux boxes. Looks as if this
functionality is not yet built into SAMBA 3.0.0. Any advice/leads?
Your responses as always will be appreciated.
Thank you,
Jonathan Hughes
Tech Support Specialist
Goodyear South Africa
Robert Collins
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Subject: Re: [squid-users] Squid versus
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2003/12/05 10:57
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On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 02:41, Dave Augustus wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> Realizing that most on this list are biased against Microsoft, I am
> asking you to put your biases aside and answer this question:
>
> Why should I as a manager consider using Squid over Microsoft ISA in an
> (almost) entirely Microsoft shop if neither solution is deployed yet?
Additionally, I'd like to add that
*) squid runs on NT (many thanks to Guido who maintains the native port)
*) squid is considerablly more tunable than ISA's proxy facilities.
*) I don't think it's fair to say that 'most on this list' are biased
against Microsoft. The list is here for folk who use squid, and many
(I'd have to say 90+%) support or interoperate with Microsoft
clients/servers and the like.
Rob
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