[squid-users] Fix for Windows media player and NTLM auth pop ups

I have seen this problem asked about in the archives but was not sure if
a fix was ever given. If it has I apologise for the noise.

I had been having problems with WMP not correctly authenticating to our
proxy and came across a blog on the isaserver.org website.

"When WMP is acting as a web proxy client (CERN) and the web proxy
server requires Windows Integrated authentication, WMP will not
auto-authenticate to the web proxy server if the web proxy server is
specified as either an FQDN or an IP address. If the web proxy server is
specified as a NetBIOS (unqualified) name, WMP will auto-authenticate
using the interactive account credentials. If the web proxy server
requires Basic or Digest authentication, an authentication prompt is
expected, regardless of how the web proxy server is specified. This
behaviour is the same if the web proxy server is obtained via an
automatic configuration (WPAD) script."

http://blogs.isaserver.org/pouseele/2007/11/09/windows-media-player-auth
entication-prompts/

I changed our wpad file from IP's to the NetBIOS names and the pop-ups
have now disappeared. :-) Only problem now is that I have been testing
the squid_kerb_auth helper (with good results so far) and as you have to
specify the proxy as a FQDN, WMP is broken again :-(

HTH

Dean
Received on Thu Feb 28 2008 - 08:58:55 MST