> Hi all,
>
> I have sent this previously to the squid mailing list who have redirected
> me here.
>
> I have Squid 2.5 STABLE1 with Samba 2.2.6 and RH 7.3 setup to do
> transparent authentication and allow access to domain users who are
> members of the WWWusers group.
>
> I get this frequent problem where a valid user will have been browsing
> earlier in the day, then they start getting the 'access denied'
page from
> the proxy.
>
> When I manually use the helper - libexec/wb_group - to check the group
> membership, I get user does not exist errors in the winbind log file. If I
> use samba/bin/wbinfo -u, to list users the user is listed correctly.
>
> I had to restart the winbind daemon before the user could authenticate
> again.
>
> Does any one know why this is happening ?
>
> It is possibly causing other transient problems too where a user my be
> browsing OK, then the browser will prompt for domain credentials, if you
> enter valid credentials or if you click the cancel button you are able to
> continue. I haven't tried putting in incorrect credentials, but I
imagine
> it doesn't matter what you do.
>
> Thanks
>
> Gavin Lowe
>
