Is there any conflict between Win2003server and Wingate?

[VerDGull]

I've been using Wingate for our school for internet connection using Windows NT4 Server, I am very impressed!!!

But now we upgraded our server and converted our Operating System into Windows 2003 server, I already configured our server as a DNS Server, DHCP Server and a Domain Controller for our school's network in compliance with the School's Requirement, Now we have an Internet and im using Internet Connection Sharing to distribute internet but I want to use Wingate to handle our Internet distribution.

My question is can wingate handle my server's internet sharing capabilities without having any conflict/problems with my intalled configuration on my server such as Domain Controller, DNS server and DHCP server.

Please!!! help me decide wether should I continue using Wingate on our server or it may only give us problem

Ver Valiente [PLP]

[VerDGull]

Please anyone from Qbik!!!, or any talented individual can help me!

Any Help or Suggestion is greatly apprciated!!!

Ver

[genie]

You sure can reconifgure wingate and take out any services that are no longer required, like DHCP, for one - although I'd suggest to use Wingate services rather than the system ones simply because Wingate relies on some data to properly authenticate users.

[VerDGull]

Thanks a lot Genie

Are you suggesting that I remove all the services that I configured on our server and rely only with Wingate to handle all these services, well if that is the case I can implement it but my problem is my co-professors are also using this server for Networking Subjects and they are teaching these configurations to our students, we cant teach a third party software such as Wingate it is not part of our curriculum.

All I want with Wingate is to handle my internet connection distribution so I can accuaire its best features such as monitoring, content filtering and others, is there no other way I can use both at thesame time, what should I consider and what should I eliminate.

Is this possible?

Windows 2003 server will handle
* Domain Controller
* DNS Server
* DCHP Server

Wingate will handle
* Internet Connection Sharing
* Mail Server (SMTP, POP3) <-- (Optional)

[saubrey]

With Wingate 5.2.3 I am doing almost exactly what you want to do, although I am doing it with Win2k, not Win2003 server. I have win2k perform DHCP and DNS, and I have a separate POP3/smtp server perform email. Wingate handles only Internet Connection Sharing. I have turned off within Wingate: DHCP service, DNS Service, POP3 server, and SMTP server. I have turned on in Wingate: ENS, DNS/WINS resolver, GDP service, Remote Control Service, Caching, ftp proxy server, pop3 proxy server, rtsp streaming media service, socks proxy server, and www proxy server.

[VerDGull]

Thank saubrey!!!

well it works but i have another problem, i need to setup a backup domain controller to backup my active directory and serve as an internet proxy to lessen the workload of my main server, im worried of conflics is der any if i have this kind of work distribution running under windows 2003 server?

Server Role Distribution
Main Server
- Domain Controller
- DNS Server
- DHCP Server
- File Server
- Database Server (SQL Server 2000)

Backup Server
- Domain Controller
- Internet Proxy Server
- Mail Server
can i have your e-mail address, coz i want to show you how i configured and ask you opinion about this?

and another one, i configured also my Wingate as our mail server, i add an account but it didnt work, I already configured my Outlook and put on the address of my Backup server as an SMTP and Pop3 as instructed but it didnt work why?