Sonic or Smoothwall
Personally i am a fan of Smoothwall but i have one school using Sonic. Anyone offer me some views on either? I don't like the sonic unit form what i can see so far but i am open to be persuaded!
View ArticleK9 Web Protection
FYI Blue Coat Systems who make K9 Web Protection is now owned by Symantec. The support seems to have got worse/slower since they took over. I think the buyout finalised sometime early 2017 but have...
View ArticleDifference between 'Allow' and 'not blocking' a category group on Smoothwall?
Hi, Can anyone shed any light on whether there is a difference between using an 'Allow' policy for a Category Group versus 'not blocking it'? For example, is there a benefit or otherwise if I 'Allow'...
View ArticleTrust Phone System
I'm looking at implementing a trust phone system based on FreePBX, of the 13 primaries we have 3 schools with a 100mb leased line. I know there's a few people on here that have used open source pbx...
View ArticleiBoss and "In line" solutions
Are there any users of iBoss out there? Just wondering how people have found it as a solution? Also what are your views of a "proxy" solution vs a "in line" solution?
View ArticleFree filter behind LEA filter. Got it working?
Has anyone got a internal free filter working behind the LEA firewall? In the past I've tried but importing the LEA certificates and getting https to work was always a issue. Any recommendations? I've...
View ArticleSchools Broadband VPN
Is anyone using the VPN service that Schools Broadband can setup through Fortinet? They have set it up for me but the installer doesn't work on Windows 10. I'm going to log another ticket but wondered...
View ArticleLightspeed and Chromebooks
We have lightspeed filtering via a lightspeed rocket with schoolsbroadband. We are going to be implementing a large number of Chromebooks over the coming months. Is anyone else using Chromebooks and...
View ArticleSmoothwall breaks RemoteApp access?
Anyone got an ideas about why a smoothwall UTM would stop access to RemoteApps hosted on a council 2012 Server? We set this up and the school involved now cannot access their MIS systems anymore as...
View ArticleHTTP SSL Cerificate Error
On one PC and one alone I am getting a: *Your connection is not private Attackers might be trying to steal your information from www.gov.uk (for example, passwords, messages or credit cards)....
View ArticleTwitter Feeds Images not showing up
Anyone not seeing images posted on Twitter feeds were in the NE. Is it Smoothwall (SWURL) or Twitter.
View ArticleSlow web browsing
Today, we seem to be having a "slow internet day" where pages take ages to load and im thinking it's a DNS error on the Smoothwall but i'm not 100% sure. On Friday i did the upgrade to Kenilworth...
View ArticleIIS 10 urgent help please
I'm just trying to move a our asp helpdesk from IIS6 on a old server to IIS10 on a new server. I'm no IIS expert by any means, but what I don't understand is why can I only access the site through...
View ArticleDirect Access IP-HTTPS traffic blocked in Smoothwall Inverness-8
I'm receiving the following on my Firewall log, an entry every second. It's been happening since upgrading from Glamis to Inverness-8 approximately a week ago. Code: --------- Time Inbound interface...
View ArticleDomain registrar recommendations
Hi guys, Looking at purchasing a new domain name for a trust and was looking for recommendations on a domain registrar? Many thanks
View ArticleStaff access to tumblr
Hi The Head of Art at my place is keen on using tumblr with students, to help them create an online gallery and share resources. The reason for the request, was she had visited a school which allows...
View ArticleMicrosoft Direct Access stuck on connecting
When I bring up the Direct Access panel in settings, it says connecting under the connection name but goes no further than that. It is definitely not working as I cannot open any networked drives etc....
View ArticleForeign language searches
Have been asked an interesting question by an ofsted inspector. If a foreign language student does a bad web search in his native languages does it get blocked? Answer I gave was yes, for those doing a...
View Articleexa networks dns issues any one else
We have exa networks broadband but we have lost external access to servers due to dns issue at isp level I have used team viewer to access my workstation and all servers are on its just dns not working...
View ArticleYouTube / SWGfL / Lightspeed
Have an issue where our uses can no longer get to YouTube and according to Lightspeed support is it because SWGfL are pushing users to a different URL. If I do a nslookup www.youtube.com it comes back...
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