Have you checked out the number of connections to the smb server? This seems to be a problem across the board for auth modules. The answer would be to check out:More detailled explanation: I'm having dramatic performance Problems using AuthenNTLM (many Seconds to answear a request),
http://search.cpan.org/~cgilmore/Apache-AuthenCache-1.00/AuthenCache.pm
This module caches the auth information, so your connections to the smb server are limited.
so I'm writing anotherHave you checked out:
PerlAuthenHandler which looks for a Cookie and checks permission.
http://search.cpan.org/~llap/Apache-AuthCookieNTLM-0.06/lib/Apache/AuthCookieNTLM.pm
Leo Lapworth has already written a module that does exactly what you want (it seems).
HTH, speeves cws
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