User authentication through WinGate

[kh01]

I'm considering purchasing WinGate for a small network. The clients are all stand alone PCs / laptops with their own user credentials. In other words they are not part of any domain or workgroup. (An analogy would be business travellers in an airport lounge).

I imagine that I could setup each user with an individual user and password in the WinGate server. But I have a couple of questions:

1) When a user accesses the web (thru say http) does the user have to enter their WinGate credentials each time, or once they have done this the first time does this become transparent forever (or just for that session?)

2) When a user tries to send / receive their email using POP3 & SMTP, how do they authenticate their WinGate credentials with the server? (They would be using an external mail server rather than WinGate email).

Thanks.

[genie]

A user stays authenticated for as long as there are machines/workstations associated with this user. A logical machine gets created when a user initiates first session - all other consequent sessions are attached to the existing machine. When all sessions are closed, a machine gets terminated (there is the certain slack to improve performance). So if you have multiple web sessions opened, only the first one normally would require authentication with proxy.

POP SMTP and other protocols also initiate/are attached to the machines. So the same prinicpiple works here.

There are multiple ways to get authenticated in Wingate. Assumed users, Gatekeeper-based authentication, Java plugin, QbikAuth applet - anything can be used.