Some Basic Questions about WinGate 5.2.2

[rayden5_]

Hi,

first of all i have to say iam german so please excuse me my (maybe) bad english :)

I introduced WinGate this weeks to our Company by using a 50 User Licence. Basically everything is wroking fine. We use Wingate as simple hhtp-proxy (disabled most other services) and we dont use the END/Firwall/NAT Stuff..just kind apasthrough Proxy which will forward request to our DSL-Roputer/Firewall. Fine so far :)

Now after installion i created some Group e.g. "Internet-Users" and added all my users to this group which should have access to use the WWW-Proxy. I then went to Plocies of WWW-Proxy, set System-Polices to be ignored, added my UserGroup and selected "Users have to be authentificated. Workded fine too but accidently i added the Guest account into this group. So everyone who just press enter at the Java-Logon-Window got access. Later I removed Guest from this group but Guest was still able to loin and use WW-Proxy :( I stopped working on it and this morning Guest cant login anymore.

I now wonder if there is some delay after changes take effect on wingate, or if I better should restart the whole engine after changes ?

Then i have some other basic questions:

Our Virus-Scanner can update his signatures by using a proxy. But he needs to use *real* http-authentification...If i login through the JavaApplet i can update the signatures, but If i enter the some username/password in the "Proxy needs authentification" Field of our scanner , it cant update its signatures. Is there a way around this ?

Then i would like to limit bandwith per session so if someone is downloading some big file that the users have some bandwith left, is this possible ?

...can i do some "analyzing" of the Logfiles ? Maybe with some Add-on ? I mean i want to know how long and how much traffic was used by user X ?

And last thing , can users Chnage their Password without using GateKeeper ? As far as I understand GateKeepr is a admin-tool with which i can set permission, policies, add and remove Users and I dont want my users to have access to this tool.

Much thx
Heiko from Germany :)

[labull]

Hello Heiko,

Here are answers to some of your questions.

Currently there is no way to do bandwidth limiting. It has been talked about for a future version.

There are several log file analyzers - ProxyInspector www.proxyinspector.com, Cyfin from http://www.wavecrestcomputing.com/ and several other you can find.

When a user without administrator privledges logs into GateKeeper they are very limited in what they can do. Usually to only changing their password. GateKeeper is currently the only way to change a password.

You could make your Virus Scanner an assumed user so that by either machine name or IP address you assume who it is and Java authentication is not required.

Hope this helps!

Larry

[Redline]

Mr Heiko,

for analyzing log files you can try our product called "Internet Access Monitor".

http://www.InternetAccessMonitor.com

[buggzy]

Hello Qbik staff,

I think basic auth for proxy will be extremly useful feature. There are sereval cases when existing auth methods didn't match, for example situation described above (virus scanner) and multiple users at one IP (terminal server, multiple users logged on XP, nat from other subnet...).

[adrien]

we have basic and NTLM auth in the WWW Proxy in WinGate 6.0 beta from beta 2 onwards.

Also bandwidth control now as well.

Adrien