"User Must Be Authenticated" Problems

[SeanLR]

I Want To Set Up My Wingate Server To Force People To Authenticate When They Need To Use Wingate

When I Go To The Users Tab-System Policies Then Doubleclick On "Evryone" And Set The Policy to "Users Must Be Authenticated" Non Of The WGIC Applets On The User PC's Can "See" The Server

How Do I Fix This?

[erwin]

Hi Sean

If your clients are all using WGIC you can make sure they are all authenticated by setting a policy for everyone to be authenticated in the WRP service in GateKeeper (as this is the service WGIC uses to communicate with WinGate.)

After setting a policy here make sure the Default rights (System policies) setting on the front of the Policy configuration for the WRP service is set to "are Ignored"

This way the WRP policy will not be able to be overridden by a System policy that has been set somewhere.

Regards
Erwin

[SeanLR]

1 All The Windows2000 PC's On Our Network Connect WGIC Or Not
2 Now None Of The Win98 SE PC's Can Connect (Times Out No Authentication Questions)

I Have My DSL Router Plugged Into A NIC On The Wingate PC (Win2000Pro)
The Clients Are Windows 2000 And Win98 Second Edition

At The Moment Evryone On Our Network On Windows2000 Can Connect Without Authentication
And When I Do What Told None Of The 98 PC's Work

Thank You In Advance

[erwin]

Hi Sean

When I Go To The Users Tab-System Policies Then Doubleclick On "Everyone" And Set The Policy to "Users Must Be Authenticated" Non Of The WGIC Applets On The User PC's Can "See" The Server

The reason why your WGIC clients cant see the server when you set this policy you describe in the first post, is because setting authentication here will apply to WRP and GDP (both required for WGIC) which makes them not available.

If you have a mixture of clients (WGIC,NAT,Proxy) then the best way to have everyone authenticated is:

Set the system policy that you did before.

Then copy the GateKeeper.exe from the WinGate directory on the WinGate server to each client machine.

Then have the clients login to GateKeeper so they are required to authenticate before allowed/accessing the Internet in any form through WinGate.

This implements the system policy you set in your first post.

Take a read of our knowledge base article to see if this suits what you need :
http://support.qbik.com/index.php?_a=kn ... ubcat&_i=2

Regards
Erwin