Hi, I recently upgraded samba from 3.0.11 3.0.20. It's integrated with squid 2.5 STABLE 7 with patches for NTLM bugs. I am facing problem with NTLM authentication. The browser hangs and I get following error in log.winbindd [2005/09/02 13:53:10, 0] nsswitch/winbindd.c:process_loop(803) winbindd: Exceeding 200 client connections, no idle connection found [2005/09/02 13:53:10, 0] nsswitch/winbindd.c:process_loop(803) winbindd: Exceeding 200 client connections, no idle connection found [2005/09/02 13:53:10, 0] nsswitch/winbindd.c:process_loop(803) winbindd: Exceeding 200 client connections, no idle connection found [2005/09/02 13:53:10, 0] nsswitch/winbindd.c:process_loop(803) winbindd: Exceeding 200 client connections, no idle connection found [2005/09/02 13:53:10, 0] nsswitch/winbindd.c:process_loop(803) winbindd: Exceeding 200 client connections, no idle connection found The errors in squid cache.log FATAL: authenticateNTLMHandleReply: called with no result string Squid Cache (Version 2.5.STABLE7): Terminated abnormally. CPU Usage: 65238.530 seconds = 13687.180 user + 51551.350 sys Maximum Resident Size: 0 KB Page faults with physical i/o: 24735 Memory usage for squid via mallinfo(): total space in arena: 437924 KB Ordinary blocks: 435653 KB 109298 blks Small blocks: 0 KB 0 blks Holding blocks: 20584 KB 23 blks Free Small blocks: 0 KB Free Ordinary blocks: 2270 KB Total in use: 456237 KB 104% Total free: 2270 KB 1% 2005/09/02 10:19:59| Starting Squid Cache version 2.5.STABLE7 for i686-pc-linux- gnu... 2005/09/02 10:19:59| Process ID 21027 2005/09/02 10:19:59| With 32768 file descriptors available 2005/09/02 10:19:59| Performing DNS Tests... 2005/09/02 10:19:59| Successful DNS name lookup tests... 2005/09/02 10:19:59| DNS Socket created at 0.0.0.0, port 36573, FD 4 2005/09/02 10:19:59| Adding nameserver 10.203.193.25 from squid.conf 2005/09/02 10:19:59| Adding nameserver 202.56.250.5 from squid.conf 2005/09/02 10:19:59| Adding nameserver 202.56.230.5 from squid.conf 2005/09/02 10:19:59| Adding nameserver 202.56.230.6 from squid.conf 2005/09/02 10:19:59| helperOpenServers: Starting 200 'WsRedtor' processes 2005/09/02 10:20:06| helperStatefulOpenServers: Starting 250 'ntlm_auth' process es 2005/09/02 10:20:15| helperOpenServers: Starting 10 'ntlm_auth' processes 2005/09/02 10:20:16| Unlinkd pipe opened on FD 469 2005/09/02 10:20:16| Swap maxSize 102400000 KB, estimated 7876923 objects 2005/09/02 10:20:16| Target number of buckets: 393846 2005/09/02 10:20:16| Using 524288 Store buckets 2005/09/02 10:20:16| Max Mem size: 81920 KB 2005/09/02 10:20:16| Max Swap size: 102400000 KB 2005/09/02 10:20:16| Store logging disabled 2005/09/02 10:20:16| Rebuilding storage in /home1/cache1 (CLEAN) 2005/09/02 10:20:16| Rebuilding storage in /home1/cache2 (CLEAN) 2005/09/02 10:20:16| Rebuilding storage in /home1/cache3 (CLEAN) 2005/09/02 10:20:16| Rebuilding storage in /home1/cache4 (CLEAN) 2005/09/02 10:20:16| Rebuilding storage in /home1/cache5 (CLEAN) 2005/09/02 10:20:16| Rebuilding storage in /home1/cache6 (CLEAN) 2005/09/02 10:20:16| Rebuilding storage in /home1/cache7 (CLEAN) 2005/09/02 10:20:16| Rebuilding storage in /home1/cache8 (CLEAN) 2005/09/02 10:20:16| Rebuilding storage in /home1/cache9 (CLEAN) 2005/09/02 10:20:16| Rebuilding storage in /home1/cache (CLEAN) 2005/09/02 10:20:16| Using Least Load store dir selection 2005/09/02 10:20:16| Set Current Directory to /usr/local/squid/var/cache 2005/09/02 10:20:16| Loaded Icons. 2005/09/02 10:20:23| Accepting HTTP connections at 0.0.0.0, port 80, FD 488. 2005/09/02 10:20:23| Accepting ICP messages at 0.0.0.0, port 3130, FD 489. 2005/09/02 10:20:23| Accepting SNMP messages on port 3401, FD 490. 2005/09/02 10:20:23| WCCP Disabled. 2005/09/02 10:20:23| WCCP Disabled. 2005/09/02 10:20:23| Ready to serve requests. 2005/09/02 10:20:24| parseHttpRequest: Unsupported method 'CONNECT' 2005/09/02 10:20:24| clientReadRequest: FD 579 Invalid Request 2005/09/02 10:20:24| parseHttpRequest: Unsupported method 'CONNECT' 2005/09/02 10:20:24| clientReadRequest: FD 592 Invalid Request 2005/09/02 10:20:25| parseHttpRequest: Unsupported method 'CONNECT' 2005/09/02 10:20:25| clientReadRequest: FD 630 Invalid Request 2005/09/02 10:20:26| parseHttpRequest: Unsupported method 'CONNECT' 2005/09/02 10:20:26| clientReadRequest: FD 664 Invalid Request 2005/09/02 10:20:26| Store rebuilding is 1.6% complete 2005/09/02 10:20:26| urlParse: Illegal character in hostname 'us.i1.yimg.com%2fu s.yimg.com' 2005/09/02 10:20:29| urlParse: Illegal character in hostname 'us.i1.yimg.com%2fu s.yimg.com' 2005/09/02 10:20:29| urlParse: Illegal character in hostname 'us.i1.yimg.com%2fu s.yimg.com' 2005/09/02 10:20:29| urlParse: Illegal character in hostname 'us.i1.yimg.com%2fu s.yimg.com' 2005/09/02 10:20:29| urlParse: Illegal character in hostname 'us.i1.yimg.com%2fu s.yimg.com' 2005/09/02 10:20:29| urlParse: Illegal character in hostname 'us.i1.yimg.com%2fu s.yimg.com' 2005/09/02 10:20:29| urlParse: Illegal character in hostname 'us.i1.yimg.com%2fu s.yimg.com' 2005/09/02 10:20:29| urlParse: Illegal character in hostname 'us.i1.yimg.com%2fu s.yimg.com' 2005/09/02 10:20:29| urlParse: Illegal character in hostname 'us.i1.yimg.com%2fu s.yimg.com' 2005/09/02 10:20:29| urlParse: Illegal character in hostname 'google.com'' 2005/09/02 10:20:30| urlParse: Illegal character in hostname 'us.i1.yimg.com%2fu s.yimg.com' 2005/09/02 10:20:30| urlParse: Illegal character in hostname 'us.i1.yimg.com%2fu s.yimg.com' 2005/09/02 10:20:30| urlParse: Illegal character in hostname 'us.i1.yimg.com%2fu s.yimg.com' 2005/09/02 10:20:30| urlParse: Illegal character in hostname 'us.i1.yimg.com%2fu s.yimg.com' 2005/09/02 10:20:30| urlParse: Illegal character in hostname 'us.i1.yimg.com%2fu s.yimg.com' 2005/09/02 10:20:30| urlParse: Illegal character in hostname 'us.i1.yimg.com%2fu s.yimg.com' 2005/09/02 10:20:30| urlParse: Illegal character in hostname 'us.i1.yimg.com%2fu s.yimg.com' 2005/09/02 10:20:30| urlParse: Illegal character in hostname 'us.i1.yimg.com%2fu s.yimg.com' 2005/09/02 10:20:41| Store rebuilding is 4.9% complete 2005/09/02 10:20:55| parseHttpRequest: Unsupported method 'CONNECT' 2005/09/02 10:20:55| clientReadRequest: FD 1266 Invalid Request 2005/09/02 10:20:56| Store rebuilding is 11.3% complete 2005/09/02 10:20:58| parseHttpRequest: Unsupported method 'CONNECT' 2005/09/02 10:20:58| clientReadRequest: FD 1304 Invalid Request 2005/09/02 10:21:02| parseHttpRequest: Unsupported method 'CONNECT' 2005/09/02 10:21:02| clientReadRequest: FD 1315 Invalid Request 2005/09/02 10:21:03| WARNING: All ntlmauthenticator processes are busy. 2005/09/02 10:21:03| WARNING: up to 250 pending requests queued 2005/09/02 10:21:07| parseHttpRequest: Unsupported method 'CONNECT' 2005/09/02 10:21:07| clientReadRequest: FD 1361 Invalid Request 2005/09/02 10:21:14| Store rebuilding is 17.6% complete 2005/09/02 10:21:16| parseHttpRequest: Unsupported method 'CONNECT' 2005/09/02 10:21:16| clientReadRequest: FD 1401 Invalid Request 2005/09/02 10:21:23| parseHttpRequest: Unsupported method 'CONNECT' 2005/09/02 10:21:23| clientReadRequest: FD 1384 Invalid Request 2005/09/02 10:21:27| urlParse: Illegal character in hostname 'us.i1.yimg.com%2fu s.yimg.com' 2005/09/02 10:21:27| urlParse: Illegal character in hostname 'us.i1.yimg.com%2fu s.yimg.com' 2005/09/02 10:21:27| urlParse: Illegal character in hostname 'us.i1.yimg.com%2fu s.yimg.com' 2005/09/02 10:21:27| urlParse: Illegal character in hostname 'us.i1.yimg.com%2fu s.yimg.com' 2005/09/02 10:21:27| urlParse: Illegal character in hostname 'us.i1.yimg.com%2fu s.yimg.com' 2005/09/02 10:21:27| urlParse: Illegal character in hostname 'us.i1.yimg.com%2fu s.yimg.com' 2005/09/02 10:21:27| urlParse: Illegal character in hostname 'us.i1.yimg.com%2fu s.yimg.com' 2005/09/02 10:21:27| urlParse: Illegal character in hostname 'us.i1.yimg.com%2fu s.yimg.com' 2005/09/02 10:21:32| Store rebuilding is 24.0% complete 2005/09/02 10:21:33| WARNING: All ntlmauthenticator processes are busy. 2005/09/02 10:21:33| WARNING: up to 394 pending requests queued 2005/09/02 10:21:33| Consider increasing the number of ntlmauthenticator process es to at least 644 in your config file. 2005/09/02 10:21:48| Store rebuilding is 30.3% complete 2005/09/02 10:21:51| parseHttpRequest: Unsupported method 'CONNECT' 2005/09/02 10:21:51| clientReadRequest: FD 817 Invalid Request [2005/09/02 10:22:01, 1] utils/ntlm_auth.c:check_plaintext_auth(286) Reading winbind reply failed! (0x01) 2005/09/02 10:22:03| WARNING: All ntlmauthenticator processes are busy. 2005/09/02 10:22:03| WARNING: up to 521 pending requests queued 2005/09/02 10:22:03| Consider increasing the number of ntlmauthenticator process es to at least 771 in your config file. 2005/09/02 10:22:03| Store rebuilding is 36.7% complete 2005/09/02 10:22:07| parseHttpRequest: Unsupported method 'CONNECT' 2005/09/02 10:22:07| clientReadRequest: FD 944 Invalid Request [2005/09/02 10:22:09, 1] utils/ntlm_auth.c:check_plaintext_auth(286) Reading winbind reply failed! (0x01) plz help in resolving this regards prasanna ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs