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Does it have to be Oliver? I'd be looking at other library software if the decision isn't 100% set in stone yet.

Hi Tom, Is it possible to put a tool on the SmoothWall website to check the categorisation of domains and URLs using the most current lists? Regards, Daniel

Hi folks, We've come across something odd when it comes to time (i.e., NTP) being provided by our Corporate Firewall server. It may affect you guys running School Guardian too. The ISP we use has two NTP servers - tic and toc. We use tic, but the fact that they also provide toc is helpful. The time server ("User defined single public or local server") in our Corporate Firewall server is set to tic. However, when I do a query of the time from our CF server using this NTP tool, it appeared to be coming from a totally different source, completely unrelated to tic. We looked into this further and found that /usr/etc/ntpd.conf shows 'server.pool.ntp.org' as its time source. We manually changed it to 'tic' and clicked the Save button on the admin/time.cgi page. Checking again using the NTP tool, we found that the time was now coming from tic. This indicates that what is set in the admin/time.cgi page doesn't actually affect the time settings. To double-check, we changed the "User defined single public or local server" in the GUI to toc and saved it. Using the NTP tool, we queried the CF server and found that the time is still coming from tic. /usr/etc/ntpd.conf still shows tic, but /settings/time/ntpd.conf shows toc. To summarise, it looks like the /settings/time/ntpd.conf file is updated by the Corporate Firewall admin/time.cgi page. However, the file that affects where the CF server gets its time from is /usr/etc/ntpd.conf. Just wondering if that is something that is specific to Corpoate Firewall, or whether you guys running School Guardian have noticed similar behaviour. Cheers, Daniel

linkazoid: Are you still experiencing this problem? From what we can tell, it's only happening to sites that are on one of our custom lists (for example, youtube.com is on a staff-only allow custom list). Does that sound like the same thing that's happening for you?

Hi Rob, Thanks for your reply. We do not currently have support with SmoothWall - is this something that we would need to purchase support for, or would it be classed by SmoothWall as a bug that needs a fix? Cheers, Daniel

You could go with SmoothWall GPL or IPCop and the urlfilter and advproxy addons.

Hi Michael, We're currently in the same situation. I've had a look at this thread which has some suggestions. For us, it seems our usernames are in order, and ticking the "SAM Account Name" checkbox in authentication settings hasn't had any effect. Regards Daniel

Thanks diggory, that's exactly what we've got as well - yet this problem keeps happening!

Hi guys, I'm coming up against the same problem in Network Guardian 2008. Our usernames are in the format firstinitial.lastname (e.g. f.nurk for Fred Nurk), and in Active Directory that appears as: User logon name: f.nurk @domain.ext where @domain.ext is in the drop-down box. If I understand correctly, what you guys are doing is changing the User logon name to '[email protected]', which would look like this: User logon name: [email protected] @domain.ext Have I got that right? If so, doesn't their username display as '[email protected]@domain.ext'? Thanks for any help you can provide. Cheers, Daniel

For those guys that have implemented this fix, does it cause any problems if the user does include "domain\" in front of their username when authenticating?

Hi Rob, I'd be interested in the same. We're currently running Network Guardian 2008. I wasn't sure if this is now a built-in feature (that I've missed) or whether it needs to be done manually. Thanks, Daniel