The WinGate Management console has been designed to provide an administrational interface to manage WinGate operations. When a user is logged into the WinGate Management console, their level of access and control will be determined by what permissions they have been granted in the WinGate Permissions system. The WinGate Permissions system allows you to assign access and control permissions on the various features, user interfaces, and dialogs provided by the installed modules.
When WinGate has been set to use either the WinGate user database, or the Windows Users and Groups connector, full control is granted to any user who is a member of the Administrators group. In the case where WinGate is using the Active Directory connector, this will be the equivalent domain admins group. This facilitates being able to use the user called Administrator to log into the WinGate Management console for the first time after installing WinGate.
Read more about WinGate permissions
The WinGate Management console can be used to access WinGate on the machine where it is installed (localhost) or it can be used to connect to a remote WinGate installation if required. Unlike GateKeeper in previous versions of WinGate, the WinGate Management console will be empty until it is populated with components provided by the WinGate installation that it is connecting to. This means that you can effectively have multiple instances of the WinGate Management console running, all connected to different WinGate installations.
The Remote Control service in WinGate is the network service responsible for listening and accepting login connections to the WinGate Management console.
The ability for WinGate to accept a remote login is determined by the bindings that have been set in the Remote Control Service it has installed. The Remote Control Service will bind the localhost 127.0.0.1 interface by default, so that it can listen for and accept users logging into the WinGate Management console on the machine where it is installed.
If you require WinGate to accept remote management logins, then the Remote Control Service will need to be configured to listen on the appropriate network interface on the WinGate server. This can be done through the Bindings tab on the properties for the Remote Control Service.
Read more about configuring remote WinGate Management connections
The WinGate Management console can be opened from several places:
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Upon starting the WinGate Management console you will be presented with a list of Connection Profiles. By default a connection profile for localhost will be created which will enable you to connect to a WinGate running on the same machine as the WinGate Management console.
Read more about connection profiles
Logging in
After selecting a Connection Profile the WinGate Management console will attempt to connect to the WinGate specified in the profile. If the connection profile requires authorisation you will be presented with a Credentials dialog.
Enter the credentials of the user you want to connect as or select "Log on as current Windows user" to use your current Windows credentials. If you wish to log in as a user from different domain you can enter a username in the format DOMAIN\Username.
If Save changes to profile is checked then any selection and changes you make will be saved to the profile permanently. Passwords will only be saved for the currently running instance of WinGate Management console. If you quit and run WinGate Management console again then passwords will have to be re-entered. Your passwords are never saved to disk.
The Connect to WinGate dialog for the WinGate Management console asks you to enter the IP address of the WinGate engine that you wish to connect to.
As mentioned, this can be either the localhost to access the WinGate installation on the same machine where you are logging in from, or you can enter the IP address of a remote WinGate installation that you wish to manage.
Once you have entered the IP address of the WinGate installation you wish to connect to, you will be prompted with the Login information dialog where you can enter the user name and password of a user who has permission to log into the WinGate Management console.
If you have configured WinGate to use an Active Directory database, then the Login information dialog will appear slightly differently to the normal Login information dialog that is used.
It differs slightly in the fact that it includes a Domain field. This is provided so you can enter the user name, password, and Active Directory domain in their respective fields. Alternatively, you can simply enter the user name in the Active directory user name format (e.g. joeblogs@example.com ) without having to specify the Active Directory domain in the Domain field.
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