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Title: What is this called and can it be done with SME?
Post by: nb69 on February 05, 2005, 08:23:43 AM

Hi all,

I'm sorry, I do not know how to call the following. But I'll try to explain as well as I can.

At my university, whenever I connect to the network, I get a popup asking my for my student ID and password. It then allows my IP to access certain network priviledges, Internet,intranet, etc...

What is this called and can it be done with SME ? Lan AND/OR WiFi ?

Thanks

Title: What is this called and can it be done with SME?
Post by: GoVeGeTa on February 05, 2005, 10:35:21 AM

do a search on LANLORD, it maybe what you are looking at trying to achieve

Title: What is this called and can it be done with SME?
Post by: nb69 on February 05, 2005, 11:36:43 PM

hi thanks for the reply.

I took a look at it. And all I can see is that its a Server panel plugin that lets you see your current leases. Am I missing something?

Thanks

Title: What is this called and can it be done with SME?
Post by: nb69 on February 06, 2005, 09:18:48 AM

What I'm trying to find is something that would allow clients to connect to my lan, get an IP address from my server and not be able to use common protocol ports (ie: HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, MSN, POP, SMTP,VPN, etc.)

As soon as they open a web browser, they are directed to a login page or prompt that requires to enter a UID/PASS. As soon as they are authenticated, rules on the firewall are changed to allow their IP to connect to the Net with a timeout value (~60 min).

Title: What is this called and can it be done with SME?
Post by: jcoleman on February 06, 2005, 04:20:23 PM

There are a number of contribs that will allow you to use authentication for net access.

Take a look at:  

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=24429.msg97879#msg97879

-jeff

Title: What is this called and can it be done with SME?
Post by: nb69 on February 06, 2005, 09:15:11 PM

does it work with 6.0+ ?

Title: What is this called and can it be done with SME?
Post by: shanen on February 07, 2005, 12:38:24 AM

What you are after is a "captive portal" and there is no implementation of this for SME server.

Shane

Title: What is this called and can it be done with SME?
Post by: gregswallow on February 07, 2005, 03:16:14 AM

Here is one called NoCatAuth:
http://nocat.net/


This also look cool, as an alternative to installing it on SME:
http://www.publicip.net/

Title: What is this called and can it be done with SME?
Post by: nb69 on February 07, 2005, 04:08:43 AM

sweet....

thanks very very much :P