Education Digital Services - Lancashire - Connection is not private
I've a few schools reporting that some sites aren't loading and throwing a "Your connection is not private". It's some sort of certificate error with Netsweeper, refreshing the page a few times...
View ArticlePolice Cyber Alarm
Hello, I'm just wondering if anybody has managed to alter the Police Cyber alarm to work with ubuntu because CentOS is EOL. I've got so far and I feel its doable but just wondering if any other Linux...
View ArticleUnifi UDM Pro Max Firewall/Router Interesting...
So I just caught up on my blogs and news and saw Unifi have released their new UDM Pro Max Firewall/Router this week....
View ArticleTSOHost no longer supporting TLD so needs to move by 30th April
So I had an email from TSOHost saying that they are no longer supporting TLD and it will impact my .sch.uk domain I have. I use them as a NAMESERVER DNS only, no web hosting. I have until 30th April to...
View ArticleWhitelist on ChromeOS while still allowing Chromebooks to run
Hi. I have been tasked with setting up a whitelist for our exclusion room. I have been getting it to work, bar one thing - blocking google.com which comes under the inbuilt Chromebook category....
View ArticleSuffolk County Council - Smoothwall problems
Anybody else on Suffolk County Council Broadband/Smoothwall having reporting issues? We are getting a weekly summary from the Smoothwall (this is the sum total of information available to us), that...
View ArticleSmoothwall Cloud Filter , Edge sidebar
Hi , Any one using the Smoothwall cloud filter "Edge" addon ? We use this for our intune devices , seems to work great apart from the following If not disabled , Users can add a custom app to the side...
View ArticleSmoothwall and Adult Mixed Content reports
Trying to work out why so many students are hitting some domains that are listed as Adult Mixed Content such as media.themoviedb.org without intentionally going there. This gets emailed to the...
View ArticleFind a device from IP...?
We have a rather legacy system here, but those in this area who had BSF funding to upgrade the network infrastructure should know it well (as I presume all schools had similar networks put in).......
View ArticleGoogle Meet - Couldn't start the video call because of a network error.
We've started to get this recently, no idea why. everything looks fine on the webfilter/Firewall side. Google status is green. Just wanted to know if anybody else is having this issue? We have SOPHOS...
View ArticleEdugeek toolbar blocked!
When I write a post, I no longer have the toolbar above the box, with the bold/italics/emojis/image. It is there when I look from my phone, so it is presumably a filtering thing. Anyone know what I...
View ArticleRunning two web sites on different ports
We have a site https://blah.schoolname.org/ that runs on port 443. This is hosted onsite and we have a port forward rule on Smoothwall to forward HTTP and HTTPS (or port 80 and port 443) traffic to the...
View ArticleSmoothwall - Blocking Google searches
Has anyone managed to get their Smoothwall to block google searches successfully? We've got a block everything policy in place for students in an exam security group and it blocks everything but a...
View ArticleSmoothwall SSL 500 Internal Server Error
Hello, We are having an issue after authentication on the Smoothwall SSL page. Before this issue, the confirmation page would show the account logged in. Instead we now see the error text below....
View ArticleGetting fibre to our home with a 30 metre shared drive
Were being targeted by salesmen for fibre (most recently Youfibre) to the door claiming that they can now pull fibre up from the road without having to dig up our neighbours gardens. Has anyone had...
View ArticleUnexplained slow speeds
Hey All, So, we are with RM, we have 100Mbps leased line. At this school, mot mornings there is a real lack of speed. It looks intitally like a DNS issue but isn't. - Speaking with RM, they are saying...
View ArticleSmoothwall & ChromeOS - Pre 110 / post 110 / post 127
We have a number of ChromeOS chromebooks which are on a ChromeOS of pre 110 and have expired auto support agreements. As I understand we need to make provisions to use the MV2 Smoothwall extension on...
View ArticleFiltering auth on Intune device over network
So I think I have found an interesting one and just not looking at it right & missing something fundamental to get an answer. We have Smoothwall device all working fine. We have laptops that are...
View ArticleSmoothwall Too_many_redirects
Hi, I have this logged with smoothwall support but I'm not getting anywhere with that at the moment, their support has been a bit lacking recently. So maybe someone else has had a similar issue and...
View ArticleChrome & Edge - Stop remembering fields
We have Sophos as our filtering, with YouTube set as blocked by default for students - except if they use a bypass code. With the bypass option enabled, when a student accesses YouTube, they get the...
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