Unable to open http://www.webdocservices.com through wingate

[roshan]

Dear All,
I have wingate 6.0.4 installed on my server. I am able to browse all the websites, but not able to access this website http://www.webdocservices.com . Please advice as to what configuration is missing.

Thanks.
Roshan

[Pascal]

Do you require authentication on WinGate at all? How are your clients connecting through WinGate?

[roshan]

Thanks for your reply.

I will tell you the setup.
I have two network cards, one connected to WAN Link and One to the LAN link.

All users are connecting to wingate using the guest account, no authentication. Also we I have installed Wingate client on the users systems.

[jamesc]

Two things to try.

1. Create a caching policy for that website. Please change the keyword from prohire.com to webdocservices, restart the Wingate engine and test again.



2. Use the NAT connection method and intercept the web request (You may be experiencing a problem where MS will not allow the credentials to be sent through the proxy, hence we make a NAT connection, and then intercepts it with the proxy. As an alternative you can just use the WGIC; please advise if you are not sure.

a) So for NAT, you need to check it was installed:



b) Then setup the intercept



c) Then set the client machine to use NAT, which is basically done as follows.

If the WinGate servers internal IP address is:
192.168.0.1
255.255.255.0

Then the client would be

192.168.0.x
255.255.255.0
Gateway 192.168.0.1
DNS 192.168.0.1



Please let us know how you get on, and if you need further assistance we would be glad to help

[roshan]

Thanks a ton,
This is indeed great service. I will try out the steps you have mentioned and get back to you.

Regards,
Roshan

[roshan]

Hi There,
Sorry but I get this error message when I try to open the website.


You are not authorized to view this page

HTTP Error 401.2 - Unauthorized: Access is denied due to server configuration.
Internet Information Services (IIS)

Also can you let me know which ports to allow and which to block if I am enabling firewall and using the custom edit.

Thanks

[adrien]

So this site requires you to log in to view it?

Some authentication mechanisms don't work in Internet Explorer if it is going through a proxy server (or more specifically if it thinks it is).

For instance Internet Explorer refuses to attempt an NTLM authentication if it knows it is talking to a proxy server (no idea why - I personally consider this to be a bug in Internet Explorer).

However, you can use NTLM authentication through WinGate's WWW proxy if IE doesn't think it is using the proxy - i.e. if you use transparent proxying to intercept a NAT connection from the client. For this configuration, you would have no proxy settings in the client machine (and turn off proxy auto detection), and in the TCP/IP properties of the client machine, the default gateway would be the IP address of WinGate.

Adrien