I an trying to use Wingate to replace older installations of ISA server on Server 2003 (for internet access) and Microsoft Proxy Server 2.0 on Winnt4.0 (edge proxy firewall). The old systems function just fine, but it is getting hard to find hardware that will run them. Proxy 2.0 works well for us by publishing to several internal servers and sites from one IP address, so we'd like to retain that.
Wingate seems to be the natural replacement. I have installed both Version 8 and 9 several times. The test machine is a Dell 790 running a fresh install of Win 7 Ultimate 64-bit. The machine is equipped with 2 NICs, one with an external address and one with a private internal address. Internet access is fine from the machine either through the external card or from the internal network and our current outbound proxy (the ISA server). Internet sites are pinging fine.
After Wingate install, a first time run of the program displays the connection screen to localhost, and after selection then displays the welcome screen. Before displaying the user database selection window, a script error page displays, informing that a page cannot be reached (the URL line is displaying a //network/ path that appears to be unreachable from the program). Either stopping the script or allowing it to continue results in the same result. When trying to select Configure Network Adapters or any other menu item, I get that same page display error in IE with different paths which cannot be reached. I assume that it is trying to change to another page on either the Wingate site or an intranet-style setup on this machine. I have no experience with the system and cannot find any similar questions in the forum just yet. I have also tried using Windows and Wingate user database options to see if that changed anything. It did not. There is only one user for the machine at this time, administrator with no password.
I am going to try the program on a fresh Server 2003 machine just as a last resort, but really would like to use the smaller Win 7 machines in our inventory if possible.
Is it something simple I am completely overlooking, or is this machine o/s combination a problem?
Thanks for any assistance.
David