RE: [squid-users] Microsoft Proxy being a child of a Squid Proxy?

> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > We're planning on setting up a second proxy on the
> > company, so is it
> > > > possible to set up a Windows proxy who will be a child of my
> > > > Squid proxy?.
> > >
> > > Sure.
> >
> > But it does raise the question: Why not just use squid twice?
>
> In my case, it's because the MS proxy is already in place, and
> because some crazy people want to use group-based authorization
> on the client side (it's a geographically distributed cache)
>

ms-proxy/ISA allows you do authenticate based on user's NT account
without need to manually configure proxy user name/password on every
client. It is major advantage when you have several hundreds Microsoft
clients.

Squid (stable) still cannot do it.

-andrej
Received on Tue Feb 05 2002 - 08:10:49 MST