ENS (Extended Networking Services) issue

[Syris]

Hi all,

Hopefully some more of the experienced among you will be able to help me with this issue.

The company I work for repairs gaming consoles and as such we need to sometimes test the consoles for internet activity. The problem I have is that when ENS -> Sessions -> Ports 80 & 8080 (even just 8080) are ticked then the policies that I have set under WWW take control and denies access to all users to specific sites. This is what i want however it repeatedly asks for authentication multiple times in Internet Explorer (which never actually authenticates) and only one in Firefox (Authenticates first time)

It is at this point that all of our Playstation 3's and Xbox 360's stop getting an internet connection.

As soon as I untick the ENS box under sessions all the consoles regain connection.

Anyone have any ideas on this??

+++++ UPDATE +++++

Ok after a bit of playing about I have found that stripping all policies for WWW so when I only have one group called "Everyone" with a status of "Unrestricted Access, it allows the consoles to access the web. The problem is now that whenever I add a policy to a new group for example "Allowed Web Users" and have a few site bans in place it won't take effect because of the "Unrestricted Access" on "Everyone"

Any more ideas?

Thanks in advance.

Syris

[logan]

Hi Syris,

You could use the Locations tab of the everyone policy and specify the IP addresses of the game consoles. That way, only the game consoles will get unrestricted access. Other network users will then be effected by the restrictive policies that you create.

Alternatively, you could add another network adaptor on a different subnet to the WinGate computer and connect game consoles to the extra adaptor. Then use policy to grant unrestricted access to the new subnet, while restricting access to your existing subnet.

[Syris]

Hi Logan

Thanks for the reply, however I have one more little issue with the policies etc.

If I want to allow access by time i set a time frame and nothing else.

If I want to allow a ban I set the ban and nothing else.

If however I wanted to set a ban on a site but then allow access to this site during lunchtime how would I go about it??

At the moment it seems as though I can only do one or the other.

Regards

Nathan

[jasona]

To do this you would create a new policy that allows access to this site only between the time. This will override the more restrictive policy during the selected time period.

Create a new policy:

- On the time tab of this policy you will enter the time you wish to allow this site e.g '12.01pm - 12.05pm'
- On the advanced tab >> add filter >> add criterion >> "this criterion IS met if" 'HTTP URL' 'contains' 'example.com'

[Syris]

Hi Jasona,

Thanks for the replies to my questions last year, they resolved the issues I was having.

Kind Regards

Syris