Using wingate server also as a Desktop

[vsam]

I have 4 PC in office LAN network , all 4 have Windows XP SP2
1st PC is a server (name=server, IP: 192.168.0.1) on which wingate is installed and working perfectly (also windows xp sp2)
I have blocked some websites which works OK on 3 PC's (apart from server)
Now i want one of my staff to sit on the wingate server PC, and also the website blocking/puresite filter should work for the server too
I added user: server (assumed user: by name (server) or IP: 192.168.0.1 ), hes also member of group:staff (which has blocking activated)
but still the person on the server is able to surf Internet without any restrictions

How to do that?

[alyork]

This is what works for us.

The browser has to point to the 192.168.0.1 ip address.

With Internet Explorer 6:

Tools
Internet Options...
Connections
Lan Settings
Automatic Detect Settings (check off)
Proxy Server (check on)
Address 192.168.0.1 Port 80
OK

- Al

[Nev]

Hi all, you can also use the 'localhost' ip on the server of 127.0.0.1 and appropriate port for all services via Wingate, this won't count as a licence allocation, so frees another user on the network via the internal NIC.

[vsam]

Thanks alyork and Nev
Nev, could you please elaborate - what and where to do exactly?
thanks in advance

[Nev]

Thanks alyork and Nev
Nev, could you please elaborate - what and where to do exactly?
thanks in advance

Well what you would do is use that IP address for the proxy configuration in all your client programs such as Outlook, Firefox and IE.

As an aside you can use Group Policy to lock this setting for IE at least if users' want to or find how to change it, there is plenty of Google stuff on the Group Policy editor.

[alyork]

I tried using 127.0.0.1 for IE, Firefox and Outlook Express on the Wingate machine and it worked OK. Thanks for that tidbit. - Al

[vsam]

i use 192.168.0.1 as proxy server in both firefox and ie, and it worked
thanks