hi there,

i'm doing NTLM authenication on my network at the moment and most of my user are working on machines joined to the domain, but some are on laptops and machines that are not on the domain and when they go to access the internet via squid they get a NTLM authenication box, and it always says 'connecting to 192.168.0.254' where as in my squid.conf file the realm is 'squid proxy-caching server'.

when i make the squid file look like this

auth_param ntlm program /usr/bin/ntlm_auth --helper-protocol=squid-2.5-ntlmssp
auth_param ntlm children 5
auth_param ntlm max_challenge_reuses 0
auth_param ntlm max_challenge_lifetime 2 minutes
auth_param ntlm use_ntlm_negotiate off

auth_param basic program /usr/bin/ntlm_auth --helper-protocol=squid-2.5-basic
auth_param basic children 5
auth_param basic realm squid proxy-caching server
auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours

i see 'connecting to 192.168.0.254'

when i make the squid file look like this

auth_param basic program /usr/bin/ntlm_auth --helper-protocol=squid-2.5-basic
auth_param basic children 5
auth_param basic realm squid proxy-caching server
auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours

auth_param ntlm program /usr/bin/ntlm_auth --helper-protocol=squid-2.5-ntlmssp
auth_param ntlm children 5
auth_param ntlm max_challenge_reuses 0
auth_param ntlm max_challenge_lifetime 2 minutes
auth_param ntlm use_ntlm_negotiate off

all my uses get prompts.

I want only my users off the domain to get prompts and when they go get a prompt i want it to say 'connecting to squid proxy-caching server' and not list the IP address