RE: SmoothWall 0.9.9 Problem

From: Andrew Kavanagh (andrewk@spray-quip.com)
Date: 12/19/01 

From: Andrew Kavanagh <andrewk@spray-quip.com>
To: "Moorhouse, Walt P" <WaltPMoorhouse@eaton.com>, Focus-Ms <focus-ms@securityfocus.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 14:33:41 -0500

And the winner is Walt Moorhouse!

My linux proxy server was interrupting the request since I have only
connected the SmoothWall box to the network behind a hub and have not yet
connected it as the main firewall in front of the router.

Thanks for everyone's help!

Other things I have tried from suggestions:

Yes 192.0.0.0 is my network with a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0
The IP 192.0.0.106 is the Green interface.
I have also tried
https://192.0.0.106:445
https://admin:pass@192.0.0.106:445
https://root:pass@192.0.0.106:445
http://admin:pass@192.0.0.106:81
http://root:pass@192.0.0.106:81

I have tried ports 443 and 80 also just in case but I get a 'Connection
Refused' Error.

Now that I have disabled the proxy settings in IE6.0, I can access the Web
Admin by using http://192.0.0.106:81 or https://192.0.0.106:445

Thanks again,
Andrew

-----Original Message-----
From: Moorhouse, Walt P [mailto:WaltPMoorhouse@eaton.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 2:11 PM
To: 'Andrew Kavanagh'
Subject: RE: SmoothWall 0.9.9 Problem

I may have made an incorrect assumption here, but, have you tried to change
your proxy settings so that you aren't going through a proxy? I have seen
this cause problems in other things the use web administration.

Let me know if this works or not.

Walt Moorhouse
Network Administrator
EATON Corp.

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Kavanagh [mailto:andrewk@spray-quip.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 9:11 AM
To: Focus-Ms
Subject: SmoothWall 0.9.9 Problem

Hi,

Has anyone ever played with or is actually using SmoothWall 0.9.9 Firewall?
http://www.smoothwall.org/

I have read all four manuals available on the website including the FAQ
(which is quite detailed with about 20 pages on how to not ask a stupid
question). I setup a P166, 64MB Ram, 2GB Hd system with a "Green"
(terminology used by the SmoothWall team) network card and configured the
basic settings for the system. I am able to ping and tracert the box using
the IP I assigned to it:

<snip>
C:\>ping 192.0.0.106

Pinging 192.0.0.106 with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 192.0.0.106: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=255
Reply from 192.0.0.106: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=255
Reply from 192.0.0.106: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=255
Reply from 192.0.0.106: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=255

Ping statistics for 192.0.0.106:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms

C:\>
</snip>

the box itself is not giving me any errors but I cannot access the Web Admin
remotely from another computer on the network. The response I get from the
IE6.0 browser is:

<snip>
ERROR
The requested URL could not be retrieved
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 

----
While trying to retrieve the URL: http://192.0.0.106:445/
The following error was encountered:
Access Denied.
Access control configuration prevents your request from being allowed at
this time. Please contact your service provider if you feel this is
incorrect.
Your cache administrator is root.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----
Generated Wed, 19 Dec 2001 15:20:55 GMT by proxy.spray-quip.com
(Squid/2.3.STABLE1)
</snip>

I've tried both ports 445 (secure) and 81 (insecure) but still got the same
response.  Does it concern any permissions I could be missing?  I have not
applied the patches provided on the website, maybe I must do this first?
But I am thinking the patches are not needed for basic functionality.  Has
anyone else come across this problem?  I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.

Thanks for any help!

Andrew Kavanagh
IT Manager
Spray-Quip Ltd.
Tel:905-793-9700
Fax:905-793-6155
www.spray-quip.ca

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