disabling guest account

[snoopy]

I'm trying to tighten my server's security a little bit. I'm using 5.2.3.901 with NAT and WWW proxy.

First step of course was disabling guest account :) I knew FTP will not work until used in passive mode. One of Wingate's people answered my post some time ago with a lot of technical details in FTP, but because previous versions of Wingate were fine without guest, I don't believe it :)

Question1: when disabling guest, I get a message "DNS and other services will not work". What are the 'other' services and why they are not working?

Question2: I have assumed users by IP. Maybe I'm doing something wrong. How can I make sure that only those users can access all services?

[adrien]

Hi

The main problem people run into when disabling the guest account is what to do when a guest user attempts to access WinGate.

By default, anything that connects to WinGate is guest so would be banned immediately.

Only proxies in WinGate that can provide user authentication would then be available. Or you would require all users to have an assumption associated with their IP.

I think there are a couple of things left in WinGate that always use the guest account as well, like DHCP (since there is no client IP address).

This is why, on the Guest account, if you are using the NT user database, we allow you to have the Guest account in WinGate enabled if the OS one is disabled

Adrien

[kgoodknecht]

I'm trying to tighten my server's security a little bit. I'm using 5.2.3.901 with NAT and WWW proxy.

First step of course was disabling guest account :) I knew FTP will not work until used in passive mode. One of Wingate's people answered my post some time ago with a lot of technical details in FTP, but because previous versions of Wingate were fine without guest, I don't believe it :)

Question1: when disabling guest, I get a message "DNS and other services will not work". What are the 'other' services and why they are not working?

If you are using the Wingate SMTP server for incoming mail you will no longer be able to receive mail. I found this out by accident, somehow the guest account got disabled and my mail server started rejecting all incoming mail.