Re: [squid-users] SquidNT: Strange Internet explorer authentication popup - I'm forced to recreate user profile

From: Guido Serassio <guido.serassio@dont-contact.us>
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 23:20:19 +0200

Hi Marco,

At 12.47 20/10/2006, Reale Marco wrote:
>I'm using squid nt 2.6 stable 4 on windows 2003 server from 1 year (in
>active directory environment) with ntlm auth and it works very well
>(stable, fast, and no big problems)
>
>PROBLEM DESCRIPTION:
>As already told squid works well but sometimes (10 pc in last 2 months)
>happens that on a pc internet explorer continuosly require credentials
>(user/password pop-up). If the same user logs on others pc the problem
>isn't present.
>I think should be an internet explorer (or windows bug) that
>unexpectedly stops to work correctly with ntlm authentication and squid.
>IMPORTANT: all users have outlook 2003 and exchange 2003 and it works
>correctely thus the problem cannot be related to Active directory;
>others applications that require kerberos or ntlm authentication
>(netlogon, kix, web applications) work correctely also.
>Thus...the problem is related to the user profile in fact if I recreate
>it, the problem disappears
>Can someone give me a suggestion? Is there a way to force internet
>explorer clear cached credentials (or something similar...) and avoid to
>recreate user's profile?

I love Internet Explorer ..... :-(((((

I think that nothing can be done on the Squid side.

It seems that the "Enable Windows Integrated Authentication" option was lost
Try checking the IE's security zones settings, this option is
configured for each zone.

Regards

Guido

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Received on Fri Oct 20 2006 - 15:20:44 MDT

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