[squid-users] Problems with ntlm_auth

Hi all

Environment:
RHEL WS 3.0
Samba 3.0.7-1.3E (Red Hat RPM version)
Squid 2.5.STABLE3-6.3E.2 (Red Hat RPM version)

I posted a question a couple of days ago which got me
finally pointed in the right direction to make this work.
Thanks to those who responded. However I find myself with a
little issue that I can't seem to get around. Once again, I
find myself in a position where I have a working proxy but
as soon as I attempt to add authentication I get failures.
The line I use in squid.conf is:

auth_param ntlm program /usr/lib/squid/ntlm_auth
--helper-protocol=squid-2.5-ntlmssp

Every time I try to run it I get:

2004/10/29 09:04:42| helperStatefulOpenServers: Starting 30
'ntlm_auth' processes
(ntlm_auth): invalid option -- -
unknown option: -?. Exiting
(ntlm_auth) usage:
(ntlm_auth) [-b] [-f] [-d] [-l] domain\controller
[domain\controller ...]
-b enables load-balancing among controllers
-f enables failover among controllers (DEPRECATED and always
active)
-l changes behavior on domain controller failyures to
last-ditch.
-d enables debugging statements if DEBUG was defined at
build-time.

I have tried adding a domain/controller entry inbetween
"ntlm_auth" and "--helper..." and at the end of the line,
I've tried putting the slashes both ways and putting it in
quotes. I cannot think of any other permutations that I can
do. Winbind appears to be working well as does Samba in
general regarding access to shares. I am wondering if the
issue is "-"...the domain/controller is (like)
IT-DOM\srv-1234 and I have found other places in Linux where
dashes are not exactly helpful.

One thing I was told last time was to check the permissions
on the pipe directory; the docs I found suggested that the
squid user should be the owner but on my server it was
root/root. I changed the ownership to squid/squid and
winbind stopped working, despite adding 777 permissions. Is
this correct? Should the ownership be squid/root?

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