wingate 6.0 direct connection not working

[xcyber]

wgic is supposed to make the computer seem directly connected to the internet but it's not working. i configured my internet explorer to use a proxy connection to see if that works and it does but i dont want to connect through a proxy. i checked my wingate server and winsock redirection service appears to be working so what's wrong?

[adrien]

HI

Have you tried any other internet application to see if they can use the WinGate Client?

With IE6 onwards, MS started doing some really weird things. The WinGate Client is a Winsock 2 Layered Service Provider DLL, which is loaded by Winsock in the context of any winsock application.

If you have ever run the network setup wizard and are using IE6, then we have found that IE6 stops loading our DLL, which I guess means it isn't using winsock (????). We have found in these cases if you remove the default gateway setting from that client machine, then IE6 will then start using the WinGate client again.

Other more obvious things to check are that the WinGate Client is not configured for IEXPLORE.EXE to be local only access, or that if you are using centralised configuration on the Winsock Redirector Service, that the proper settings are in there so that IE will use the WinGate Client.

Adrien

[xcyber]

the only programs that can be connected directly using wgic are my file sharing programs (kazaa, bearshare). however, other internet applications are unable to connect directly. some of the programs support proxy connections and i can connect through them. but i want to connect directly and my online games, aol instant messenger, internet explorer, and netscape 7.1 aren't detecting a direct connection.

my isp is currently aol if that helps.

[adrien]

Hi

If this is version 6, make sure you have activated a trial key. We found a bug last night that stops WGIC working if you don't have an Enterprise key.

Adrien