Novell Netware - TCP Mapping Question

[trebor]

We are a small business with three offices using Wingate 5.2.2 each with a LAN behind it. At each office we have a dedicated ADSL circuit for the Wingate firewall/proxy connection. 2 branch offices connect to the head office. We use TCP mapping, port redirection, etc., to great effect.

Each office's LAN is grouped as per: 192.168.1.*, 192.168.2.* and 192.168.3.*, and Client machine IP's are manually specified in TCP/IP settings. Wingate DHCP is left on 'semi-auto' (in case we connect other PC's to the LAN), however Wingate DHCP assign gateway is off.

At each office we ALSO have a separate ADSL line for a private secure connection to a viewdata type service (we are a travel agency business). This is connected by an ADSL router, which is specified in each client TCP/IP settings as the default gateway. Also, this 'Viewdata Router' is specified in Wingate, at each office, under DHCP global options as a default gateway.

We currently run a Novell Netware V5.0 server at each location for our sales system. Each client PC logs into the local Netware Server using Netware Client. We want to map through to our Head Office via Wingate and log these clients directly onto the Head Office Server Netware Server. Using Wingate TCP mapping to Netware server port 524 we have managed to connect a remote site client to H.O. Server but cannot authenticate and run the software.

We are 'self -taught' enthusiasts who cannot afford to employ expensive Novell Engineers, does anyone know where we are going wrong?

Many thanks

Rob

[erwin]

Hi Rob

Just a few questions

How are you connecting to the Novell server?
Are you using the web browser based Novel software access to connect to the server? Or just a direct access connection via some third party management software.?

I briefly read on the Novell site that the web browser software can utilize a Secured Sockets layer (SSL) type connection.

By creating a TCP mapping as you have described it may be that the Server is requiring authentication using SSL in which case you can enable this on the connection tab of your TCP mapping by forcing it to use SSL through Http proxy option (specifying the WinGate Server address as the Http proxy).

Obviously this is just a suggestion
Let us know how you get on

Regards
Erwin

[trebor]

Hi Erwin

Thanks for replying so quickly, in answer to your question we are using Novell client 3.4 (This is a download from novell.com) for our login to the Novell NetWare 5 server.

We are aware that the server is using pure IP not IPX, this is why we thought that the TCP mapping would work. I think what you are saying about the SSL authentication is possibly a good idea we should try. If you have any other thoughts regarding this please reply.

Many thanks

Rob

Hi Rob

Just a few questions

How are you connecting to the Novell server?
Are you using the web browser based Novel software access to connect to the server? Or just a direct access connection via some third party management software.?

I briefly read on the Novell site that the web browser software can utilize a Secured Sockets layer (SSL) type connection.

By creating a TCP mapping as you have described it may be that the Server is requiring authentication using SSL in which case you can enable this on the connection tab of your TCP mapping by forcing it to use SSL through Http proxy option (specifying the WinGate Server address as the Http proxy).

Obviously this is just a suggestion
Let us know how you get on

Regards
Erwin