Whole bunch of problems with WinGate !

[silence]

Hi !

I have been a user of WinGate to solve my internet connection sharing needs for quite a while. After I reinstalled windows on my PC however I've installed Wingate's latest version and nothing seems to work anymore !
I'm basically using WinGate as a software router. I've got a network of 2 pcs, the server has got a direct dial up connection to the internet via dsl. The client is connected via standard lan, no wireless or similiar setup. Both PCs are running Windows XP Professional, and the network is properly set up.

The Server has got WinGate Server software version 5.2.3 properly installed (default configuration)

HOWEVER : I can't get the client to connect to the internet no matter how hard i try. There's lots of problems each and every time.

Solutions without WGIC I've tried :

If I let DHCP handle IPs and Gateway configuration for the client :
The DHCP service doesn't seem to work at all... The IP assigned to the client is not in the same range as it is the case with the IP of the server (i.e. : server 192.168.0.1, client : 192.168.XXX.YYY), the subnetmask is not the same, and no gateway is assigned to the client at all ! I tried using ipconfig /release and ipconfig /renew on the client, it told me that the client machine was unable to connect to the DHCP server. I can't even ping the server anymore (because of the different subnet mask i assume). Of course the client computer cannot access the internet.

If I try to connect via NAT :
All right, so i manually set the IP of the client to 192.168.0.2, the subnetmask to 255.255.255.0 and the gateway and DNS server to 192.168.0.1. This configuration should do the job, at least that's what i've read multiple times. I'm now able to ping the server and SOME very basic things seem to work. For example if I try to ping www.cnn.com the DNS service will resolve www.cnn.com to the appropriate IP on the client machine. I can't access any internet page via internet explorer tho, the loading process takes a LONG time, indicating that there is some type of data transfer going on, but then delivers a 404 error in the end. The gatekeeper at the server shows that bytes have been sent and received. Non IE applications behave even stranger. Some applications will connect to their respective servers, like ICQ. Others won't, or at least not properly. However, in ICQ, certain things will not be displayed correctly. There is for example this little ad in the top part of the ICQ windows. It doesn't get loaded, which I think is because of the use of the http protocol ? The whole thing might be related to wrong proxy setup, but if I enter the correct proxy at the client, it won't change anything either.

Using WGIC I've mostly gotten the same results then w/o it, using NAT only.

My second problem has to do with User authentifications :
I am using NT User Authentification and Gatekeeper shows any connecting user as a member of the group "Guests". Is this supposed to be this way? I thought ordinary "Users" would rather be the right group for them to be in. I swichted to the Wingate user db instead of the NT system recently, I was now able to get the user in to the right group, but that didn't solve any of my problems concerning the internet connection either.

I disabled the Wingate Firewall in the ENS menu and have set all the service/systems policies to "Everyone may use this service" (or w/e). I even gave the client administrator rights, but that didn't work out either.

Please Help !

[erwin]

Hi there

It seems strange that DHCP will not work correctly for you.
Did you have it set to fully automatic mode, or have any scopes configured.?

You are correct in thinking that WinGate will use a range the same as what the static IP that is configured on the internal NIC of the WinGate machine. I have retested DHCP allocation here in the lab with XP (in the last couple of days and it is behaving correctly here.

Your NAT connection should work as you have described. If IE is not behaving correctly then I would suggest you could check that the connection tab is set to "never dial a connection"(incase it is trying to use a modem).

Have you tried configuring IE to use a proxy server (entering the Internal IP address of the WinGate Server obviously) to see if it can connect this way.

As for your implementation of the NT User database, Guest will show up when there is no policy configured to authenticate users. (Authentication for NT users can be made through logging into GateKeeper, or using WGIC).

You can configure authentication to be required on either system wide or on a service by service basis. The NT or WinGate database options in GateKeeper, simply tell WinGate which database to check against when there is an authentication policy in place.

You can read about policies for authenticating users in the help file, or on our knowledge base here

http://support.qbik.com/index.php?_a=kn ... ubcat&_i=2

Some food for thought

Regards
Erwin

[silence]

Thank you for your answers erwin ! Now on to your questions :

It seems strange that DHCP will not work correctly for you.
Did you have it set to fully automatic mode, or have any scopes configured.?

The DHCP is set to fully automatic mode.

Your NAT connection should work as you have described. If IE is not behaving correctly then I would suggest you could check that the connection tab is set to "never dial a connection"(incase it is trying to use a modem).

Have you tried configuring IE to use a proxy server (entering the Internal IP address of the WinGate Server obviously) to see if it can connect this way.

IE is setup to "never dial a connection" and I've tried the proxy setup, too... didn't work :(

As for your implementation of the NT User database, Guest will show up when there is no policy configured to authenticate users. (Authentication for NT users can be made through logging into GateKeeper, or using WGIC).

You can configure authentication to be required on either system wide or on a service by service basis. The NT or WinGate database options in GateKeeper, simply tell WinGate which database to check against when there is an authentication policy in place.

You can read about policies for authenticating users in the help file, or on our knowledge base here

http://support.qbik.com/index.php?_a=kn ... ubcat&_i=2

Some food for thought

Thanks, that helped me out.