Untangle / Kerboodle
Hi I would be interested in hearing from anyone who uses Untangle firewall / filtering and who also use Kerboodle on line resources. We are having HTTPS inspection / dynamic IP address issues and can...
View ArticleWordpress Updates
Any Wordpress gurus on here? I'm trying to find out if the version of Wordpress you run is dependent on the the theme you have installed?
View ArticleJava and mathsnet
Hi Folks yet more tales from the makes of, oh god why, why do people still use Java... Over the summer we updated to Java 8 and a new version of Google chrome. Sadly, now a lot of websites aren't...
View ArticleHow have you documented on "Counter Terrorism and Security Act 2015" Section 26?
Apologies if wrong forum but... The Counter Terrorism and Security Act 2015 was published on 12th March 2015. Section 26 of the Act places a duty on schools in England (and Wales) to prevent people...
View ArticleTestdrive IE11 (Bypass Filtering via Microsoft)
Hi All, just thought id mention this - https://remote.modern.ie/subscribe Now it does require a account but you can "test drive" IE11 and use Microsofts Internet Connection, so does bypass filtering....
View ArticleRecommended School Broadband Suppliers
Hello all, our contract runs out in August 2017 but I wanted to look into no LA solutions for broandand, filtering etc also for the link for admin machines back to the la. Could anyone recommend any...
View ArticleAdd a bookmark/favourite link to a site
Does anyone have script they can give me that would create a button on a webpage to add a bookmark/favourite to the user's browser. I have looked at the Web Flash version however i'm struggling to get...
View ArticleFiltered Internet
Hi All Looking for advise on this one, we have a accommodation that is in the middle of the welsh mountains and is used to take our students on trips etc. We are finally getting round to adding some...
View ArticleSmoothwall and iMessage/Snapchat etc.
Morning, I was just wondering if anyone knew a quick way to control the blocking of Layer 7 applications such as iMessage/Snapchat etc. I'm testing with an account which has no blocking at all and I...
View ArticleSmoothwall and Sub domains
Has anyone any idea whether including just the actual domain name in a category should also affect all sub domains? As an example and trying to explain as best I can... I've added "deviantart.com" to...
View ArticleRecreate Smoothwall MITM (HTTPS interception) cert?
Hi, Does anyone know how to recreate the MITM certificate on a Smoothwall box with the right name? Mine is showing as smoothwall.local but my box is firewall.mydomain.org so Decrypt&Inspect isn't...
View ArticleSmoothwall DNS since Bamburgh
I've a support call in for this as I had some DNS issues (especially with the DNS settings changing a lot since Bamburgh) I used to be able to browse internal intranet sites from iPads etc. using zone...
View ArticleSmoothwall - Complaints Phone/Contact?
Morning Guys, Does anyone know any senior member or complaints helpline etc for Smoothwall? Honestly I'm really disappointed in them after all the good things we've heard on here, and yet our install...
View ArticleGoogle not working under Capital Bytes filter
Just wondering how many schools are having problems with Google not working under the Capital Bytes filter. When I spoke to Capital Bytes yesterday they said other schools have reported the same issue.
View ArticleWord Translation
In Word 2013 there's a feature that lets you submit your text to Microsoft to have it translated. However our proxy is filtering this out and breaking the functionality. Would anyone happen to have a...
View ArticleSmoothwall Express
I have Smoothwall Express at home and have just had to install a Virgin Media Superhub. Have access to Internet but can no longer access Smoothwall via the web as I get a "DNS lookup failed" error....
View ArticleSmoothwall Tunnel Connection Failed
Has anyone had issues with the CEM Centre and Smoothwall ? I'm getting a Tunnel Connection Failed error - I've added the sites to authentication exceptions and added do not inspect for that category...
View ArticleSmoothwall DHCP server issuing 192 scope addressess to wrong VLAN
Any help would be appreciated on my issue. We have a BYOD setup for Sixth Form students. On our Smoothwall UTM 1000 we have setup a second network interface and assigned a 192.168 address to it. We...
View ArticleBloxx acquired by Akamai
Livingston web security outfit Bloxx sold to US group - The Scotsman (http://scotsman.com/business/media-tech-leisure/livingston-web-security-outfit-bloxx-sold-to-us-group-1-3934962#axzz3qM7B5gNg)
View ArticleSmoothwall Unauthenticated IP
Hi All, My data manager is trying to use Sisra and its hitting smoothwall everyone allow policy but coming up as unauthenticated ip when I check real time. With all the support credit issues with...
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