RE: [squid-users] Load-balancing domain controllers with Squid

Ok cool, I'll post over there. I'm just trying to see if anyone else has done this already with Squid....kill 2 birds with one stone here.

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From: Kinkie [mailto:gkinkie@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 11:16 AM
To: Nick Duda
Cc: squid-users@squid-cache.org
Subject: Re: [squid-users] Load-balancing domain controllers with Squid

On Jan 22, 2008 5:05 PM, Nick Duda <nduda@vistaprint.com> wrote:
> I've googled around a bit and see things about using the ntlm_auth -b
> option, but I don't understand how/where?
>
> Problem: I have squid setup to do NTLM aunthetication of the proxy users
> against a local domain controller (samba/winbind installed on the proxy
> server), pretty straight forward. If the domain controller goes down or
> gets rebooted, the proxy users start getting popups to authenticate. I
> typically restart the winbind service when this happens once the DC
> comes back up. How can I setup squid, or samba/winbind so that when one
> DC goes down it uses the backup DC?

The Samba folks are probably better off in answering this question.
I'd be interested in knowing the answer tho.

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Received on Tue Jan 22 2008 - 09:41:36 MST