My Wingate computer accesses all without Wingate login.

[farluiz]

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I installed Wingate in my Windows 7 computer with the option "Wingate Users and Groups" database. In Wingate, there is only the "Administrator" account and the "Guest" account is disabled. I setup my Firefox browser to use a proxy server (Wingate) with IP 192.168.0.1 and port 80 for all protocols. Firefox acesses all sites through Wingate without prompting for a user name and password and I don't know why. The Windows 7 logged user name is not "Administrator" and the password is different from that used by Wingate "Administrator" account. I cannot figure out how to force Wingate to require the user name and password from Firefox. Attached is the activity print screen and property of the "LCF (unknown)" user. LCF is my computer name.

Please, how I can force Wingate prompting user name and password for ALL acesses regardless of the IP address? I have already checked all Wingate policies.

Thanks in advance.

Luiz Farias

[adrien]

Hi Luiz

By default, authentication is not turned on for web access in WinGate. This is because normally it can cause trouble for some software.

So WinGate can support optional authentication, based on the site requested, and other factors.

The easiest way to turn on authentication, is to use Web Access Control.

For example, a rule that allows access to authenticated users, will cause authentication to happen (authentication challenge to be sent to the client, which may pop a login dialog).

Even using the WinGate users and groups, you can still achieve invisible authentication if usernames and passwords match in WinGate with the windows credentials used by the clients, since the WinGate users and groups provider supports NTLM.

Regards

Adrien de Croy

[farluiz]

Everything is "ok" now. Thank you very much Adrien.