Adding a Mac onto Wingate

[josed]

I am currently running Wingate 6.0.4 with NTLM for authentication. I need to add a MAC running OS X onto the network and it will need to access the internet. I am able to access our intranet but everytime I go to the internet I get Access Denied. How can I get this MAC to go on the internet without having to use assumed users? Thanks

[MattP]

Hi,

I would have thought that the Mac browser would support NTLM authentication. Is authentication required for your Intranet, ie is the Mac able to browse any restricted sites?

Are you sure that the version of the Mac browser is compatible with NTLM authentication?

Have you set the default gateway and DNS server settings on the Mac to point at the WinGate server?

If you don't need the Mac to authenticate then you could create a LOCATION policy in the WWW proxy to allow unrestricted access to a machine with a specified IP address. As long as the Mac has a static IP address this should work fine.

Matt

[josed]

Hi Matt,

I am using Safari to browse the internet on this MAC, and I am not sure if Safari is compatible with NTLM. Authentication is not required to view my intranet, only required to access the internet and establish the correct level of internet access.

Both the default Gateway and DNS server point to the Wingate server.

I would prefer the MAC authenticates depending on the logged user. I have temporraily created a seperate group for my MAC users and have manually set the IP and user under "Assumed Users".

[nuanda]

I'm dealing with the exact same issue here. Wingate 6.2 set up using NTLM authentication and trying to get internet access for an iBook using Mac OSX 10.3.

I've found that wingate always registers the iBook as Guest, so authentication fails. The only way I can get it to work is to set the IP address as Assumed in Wingate.

Does anyone know how to set up the Mac so that wingate can identify either a computer name or user name?

[defeX!]

After doing some research, it seems that Safari doesn't natively support NTLM. However, there does seem to be some plugins available that will add support for NTLM. The plugin I found was for Python itself, rather than the Safari application only, and is called NTLMAPS. Maybe this information will help.

I also found a brief source which mentioned that OSX 10.4.2 natively supported NTLM. I cannot be sure how accurate the source is though.