iPad web filter
IÂ’ve been asked by a member of SLT to allow her school iPad to connect to her home WiFi. We normally donÂ’t allow that as our filtering is applied at network level. Doing this obviously would allow...
View ArticleLimitation when adding VLANS
Can anybody tell me if smoothwall has a limit on adding interfaces. I have 4 VLAN interface and added another configured with an IP address and the interface did not show up in the DHCP. So with that...
View ArticleSSL VPN no Maiden connection after update
Did anybody have this is after maiden upgrade where the SSL VPN stopped working. I am having such an issue can anybody assist me.
View ArticleSchools Broadband - Netsweeper reports
Is anyone able to run any reports from the Netsweeper portal? For us existing reports sit "waiting" and new reports fail to start to run. As nobody has responded to the ticket I raised yesterday, I...
View ArticleMonster Phonics (?) - Embedded videos hosted on Vimeo
Just had a teacher come to me with an embedded video on Monster Phonics (I think) that has been blocked by our LGfL filtering. I've never allowed Vimeo, but the teacher says they used this Phonics...
View ArticleFortinet wireless woes
Disclaimer: I'm a desktop admin, not infrastructure - so my phrasing here won't contain much accurate terminology - but I can obtain relevant information if required. My authority has recently moved...
View ArticleSmoothwall MAIDEN
Hi all, If anyone here is running the Maiden release of smoothwall, can you please run testfiltering.com and let me know if you're getting a fail on terrorism content?
View ArticleExa Filtering for Android Tablets for Home use for Pupils
Got a school they have purchased Exa Surf Protect, works all fine in school internally as we have just pushed the Certificate out via Group Policy and set the Proxy on Windows devices no issues However...
View ArticleSmothwall - Appliance or VM?
If you run smoothwall onsite, do you run it on one of their appliances, or as a VM? We are just looking at options moving forward to add some redundancy, as at the moment we only have a single...
View ArticleSmoothwall license question
Hi all, Hope you are keeping well. We have been a happy customer of Smoothwall for many years, running S14 appliance with web filter, firewall, malware etc. Our license is expiring soon and I wanted to...
View ArticleAndroid on BYOD - Smoothwall
Hi pupil can use their mobile devices on out network on our BYOD wifi channel on our Smoothwall using RADIUS to authenticate. Problem we have is that newer Android devices now want a certificate...
View ArticleSmoothwall help - new to it
We have taken over the IT support for a local primary school that has a Smoothwall filter. My knowledge of these is not great as I've only really used one briefly about 8 years ago. We have an issue...
View ArticleSmoothwall Cloud Filtering / Reporting
Morning All, We recently moved back to Smoothwall for our Schools. We are utilizing the hybrid model for filtering and the Smoothwall browser for our pupil devices. The cloud reporting is good,...
View ArticleZombie Knives and filtering
The Zombie Knife ban comes into force today. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/nationwide-call-to-surrender-all-zombie-style-knives-and-machetes I can still access sites selling these now illegal...
View ArticleAnybody got Impero Contentkeeper on Chromebooks?.... need a fav to ask
Anybody got Impero Contentkeeper on Chromebooks?.... need a fav to ask; Can you check if they are hinting the Contentkeeper live view report. Just wanted to run a report and noticed only our windows pc...
View ArticleSmoothwall stopped emailing alerts
Forgive my lack of knowledge on this, still new to Smoothwall as we've taken over a Primary School that uses an on-premise device. The alerts feature that triggers when dodgy searches happen seems to...
View Articleidex
Changed over to idex for our windows devices over the weekend after a few issues with the vb script we were using before. Mostly seems to work but quite a few times the smoothwall is identifying the...
View ArticleRMSafetyNet vs. Smoothwall vs. Senso
Hi, *Could anyone please give me a brief rundown of the benefits and pitfalls of these systems for Monitoring/Safeguarding?* I have no experience with either of these systems but as the new...
View ArticleSmoothwall Realtime reports - Time
One of our HoYs has raised concerns that the detection time is in UTC rather than BST so this is throwing their reporting out. Is this something that can be changed? I have mentioned there is a time...
View ArticleSmoothWall Server Certificate error issue
I know it's generally not a good idea to do this, however when a user gets a block page with the reason: "The server's certificate did not match the domain name", is there any way to bypass this?...
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