Can Wingate do this?

[inigoayo]

Hello,

I am thinking of purchase Wingate in order to control the users who can use Internet, the time inverted and to control de Webpages they visit.

I would like to do this in a transparent way because sometimes our clients visit our company and want to plug their computers directly to LAN and get out to Internet without the administrator intervention. This is, I've a DHCP server that provides IP, GW and DNS server and I would like if somebody connects a new computer to the LAN automatically have access to Internet previous a Web Authentication.

Is this possible? Is necessary to install a Wingate client program or something similar? This way I would not like.

I am evaluating Wingate since 2 days ago and I've achieved a transparent access (without specifying any proxy parameter, only with the IP, GW and DNS) but I have not achieved to authenticate the user who access.
I have specified Java authentication in the WWW service, the users who can access but it does not work...

Any help? Am I doing anything wrong?

Iñigo Ayo.
Thank you.

[adrien]

In order to use either Java access, or any other form of authentication in WinGate's WWW Proxy, you need to have the policies configured for the WWW Proxy to require that users authenticate.

It was done this way so that you have flexibility over which users need to authenticate or not.

So you most likely need to edit your policies in the WWW Proxy. Normally, the easiest way is to select that default/global policies are ignored, and then add a policy which requires that users be authenticated.

[inigoayo]

Hello,

I've achieved to connect a client to Internet through Wingate Server using the ENS driver.

Client NIC parameters:
IP: 192.168.1.229
Gateway: 192.168.1.185 (Wingate Server's IP)
DNS: 192.168.1.185 (Wingate's DNS service IP)

In this way the client connects to Internet via NAT without authentication.
How to configure Wingate to ask for authentication in this mode? (Without specifying any proxy parameter in the explorer)

I know that if I configure the Internet Explorer options and specify the Proxy Server Port & Address I can connect to Internet with Authentication but this is exactly what I don't want. Imagine I can't touch the client's computer, only assing IP's via DHCP.

Is this possible with Wingate? How must it be configured?

Regards.
Iñigo Ayo.

In order to use either Java access, or any other form of authentication in WinGate's WWW Proxy, you need to have the policies configured for the WWW Proxy to require that users authenticate.

It was done this way so that you have flexibility over which users need to authenticate or not.

So you most likely need to edit your policies in the WWW Proxy. Normally, the easiest way is to select that default/global policies are ignored, and then add a policy which requires that users be authenticated.

[adrien]

You can get WinGate's WWW Proxy to intercept connections.

To do this, edit the WWW Proxy, on the sessions tab, enable transparent proxy, and make sure there is an intercept entry for port 80 in there.

Then you should see web access showing up in GateKeeper as web activity (recognisable URLs etc).

Then the policy settings in the WWW Proxy should come into play.

Adrien