Censornet authentication problem

[dezt]

I'm having a look at setting up a censornet server but I can't get it to authenticate anyone. I've checked the ip settings and server and domain names in user authentication settings and they are all correct. The error I get is "login authorisation failed"

Has anyone come accross this before?

I'm using AD authentication, and censornet v 3.3r6.


Help please

[ChrisH]

Have you sucessfully imported the users?
Have you checked your time is synched close enough to your ad time (date from the prompt )?

Try "wbinfo -u" from the console that should return a list of your domain users.

[dezt]

I have got all the users on the system ok, the time is the same.

wbinfo -u brings back "error looking up domain users"

[ChrisH]

Try retrieving a list of users again and look through those settings. It sounds like something has changed somewhere.

[dezt]

I've removed all users and re-imported them but after the wbinfo -u command I still get the same error message.

[ChrisH]

Hmm... Is your administrator user in the default users container?

[dezt]

yes, i'm really confused, i managed to install it with no problems about 4 months ago on a test box, but it didn't have enough RAM to use it for 750 users. I finally got a decent spec PC but it won't work.

grrr.....

[dezt]

I've looked at the documentation on the censornet site, it shows a complete different setup screen on it. I'm guessing it's from an earlier version. In the authentication screen on the documentation it shows a place to put your username and password, but this doesn't exist on my version of censornet.

[dave.81]

I know this might be the most obvious but you have chosen to auth against AD and not something else?

[dezt]

double checked, yep, authenticate against AD.

[ChrisH]

Try using NT auth it should work and seems to be less hassle than AD auth with this version of CN.

[dezt]

I've set it up to auth through NT and it seems fine for now.

Any more problems i'll let you know.

Thanks both of you.

[SharedMedia]

Hi, I too just converted from Websense to Censornet 3.3r6, same error, there is no username/pass field on this version. I use AD 2003 Ent, Forest 2003. can you assist me with AD authentication with the NT selection, do i need credentials there?

[dezt]

If i remember rightly, you will need to put in an administrators account in the NT authentication for it to talk to the AD server.

Sorry I can't help any more, we have moved from censornet to ipcop.

[garethedmondson]

I'm having a look at setting up a censornet server but I can't get it to authenticate anyone. I've checked the ip settings and server and domain names in user authentication settings and they are all correct. The error I get is "login authorisation failed"

Has anyone come accross this before?

I'm using AD authentication, and censornet v 3.3r6.


Help please

Have you contacted Adelix/Censornet direct? They support their product.

The old Censornet forum is still up: forum.censornet.com :: Index

The also have a live chat running during the day: Customer Support Messenger

They are a good bunch of guys. We used to work closely with them back in the day of Censornet 2. It's a good product that doesn't get much mention here.

GJE