Is it possible?

[lockheed]

Is it possible to install wingateserver not on domain controller (w2kserver) but client machine (xp pro) and use it as www proxy (allow any connections)? If yes, is domain controller or client machine needs to be configurated?

[adrien]

Do you mean that you want to run WinGate on a machine that:

a) is a member of a domain
b) has a network connection to the Internet

and use the NT user database on the domain controller?

In order to do this you need to do several things

1. Make sure that the WinGate service (in control panel, administrative tools, services) runs in an account that is a member of the domain. By default it runs in the local system account, which won't have access to the domain controller which is required to authenticate users on the domain. It needs to be an administrator account for the domain.

2. Configure the WinGate installation to use the "NT user database"

3. In the registry on the WinGate machine, there is a key to set the domain controller to use when it is not the local NT user database to use. You need to set this to the machine name of the domain controller. This key is:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Qbik Software\WinGate\UserDatabase

create a REG_SZ ("string") value called "DomainServer", and set it to the UNC name of the server, i.e.

\\server