Link a name to IP or computer name

[mriley98]

I'm new to wingate 7, still in my 30 day trial until I decide if I want to use this on my company network. I have it running on server 2012 with almost 30 users. Im trying to figure the easiest way to 'run a report' and see what users were on what sites, and for how long. I see the timeline feature and see IPs and computer names. Im mainly trying to figure out if there is anyway to link a user to an IP or workstation. If anyone has some info on this, maybe you can also help me find an easy way to get a report to show the company owner... who is not very computer savvy, so a bunch of IPs is not what he is gonna want to see. Any ideas?

[adrien]

Hi

there are basically 2 ways to link a username to an IP.

the "strong" way is to use authentication. This involves setting your rules to require knowledge of who the user is. (e.g. in web access control rule, have the rule require the user to be a member of a specific group or be a specific user etc, rather than apply to "everyone").

If you're using the Active Directory user database in WinGate, then web browsers will automatically use domain credentials if they are configured to use the proxy (recommended). You can use a AD GPO to set users to use a proxy. We don't recommend intercepting connections to the proxy if the proxy will be authenticating, since it causes some issues for browsers.

the "weak" way is to use a credential rule to make an assumption about who the user is based on the IP. This doesn't require any change on the browser, but is only really useful if the IP::user mappings in your actual LAN are stable / don't change much.

Regards

Adrien de Croy