Wingate setup

Apr 07 04 4:14 am

Hi all,
I am new to this, and I need help urgently in setting up the wingate server. my situation,
1) I have installed wingate in an XP machine and I am planning to use it as the proxy for all my users to access the net and retrieve their external mail.
2)For internal mails I hve an exchange server.

What I would like wingate to do is....
1) to dial my ISP automatically when any of my users request for their external mail. They are using outlook express for external mail whereas Outlook for internal.
2) ability to browse the net.

My question...
1) How do I setup Wingate to do this? Do I need to set the www proxy server? What about the dialer?
2) How do I setup wingte to retrieve email? what about the smtp or POP server?

What must i do? I have look through the help directory and I am still confuse on the settings I need to configure.

Please help, Thanks in Advance.

PUCHONG

Apr 07 04 10:20 am

Hi Puchong

WinGate will use any dialup profiles to connect on behalf of clients requests and will list these under the dialer configuration in GateKeeper.
You will need to enable each connection (if you have more then one)
here. You may also need to input the username/password for your connection in here as well.

If clients are configured to use Internet through WinGate, then any Internet request they make whether it be mail,ftp,WWW will trigger the dialer in WinGate, once it is enabled.

There are three methods clients can connect to the Internet (Wingate Internet Client, NAT (Network address translation) and Proxy.

NAT is the easiest so I will describe briefly what you have to do.
Firstly configure/enable the dialer in WinGate.

On the clients machine set their DNS and Gateway settings (found in their network properties) to the internal IP address of the WinGate Server. This way whenever they make a request to the Internet it will be forwarded to the WinGate server for fufillment.

If you want to understand more about how WinGate handles mail then you can take a look at our whitepaper on Mail here:

http://www.wingate.com/resources.php

Hope this helps

Regards
Erwin