On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, Herman (ISTD) wrote: > I have located the winbind pipe directory, will try it later for winbind > authentication. However actually what is the function of the pipe ? I > think I cannot find this information on squid FAQ.
It is the communication channel to winbind. Because NTLM part of authentication requires special privileges when talking to the domain Samba is a little restrictive with who may use this by default. This permission problem is due to the design of Samba ntlm_auth and documented in the Samba ntlm_auth and winbind documentation. http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/ntlm_auth.1.html http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/winbindd.8.html (or "man ntlm_auth", "man winbindd") Regards Henrik
