One of the most common administration jobs is to monitor Internet usage by users on the LAN, and ensure that they are only using the Internet during certain times. Using WinGate, this can be easily achieved:

If your clients are using the WinGate Internet Client (WGIC)

1. Open GateKeeeper on the WinGate Server.
2. Open the Winsock redirector service (Which is listed under the System tab).
3. Select the Policies tab.
4. Ensure the Rights option at the top of the Policies tab, has User can access these services selected.
5. Make sure the Default Rights (System Policies) are set to are ignored
6. Click the add button below the Window.
7. Select the user(s)/groups to whom you want to restrict access by time.
8. Select the Time tab and select Specify times when this recipient has rights.
9. Click Add and you will be presented with the Time Slice dialog.
10. Choose/configure the appropriate times you need to choose.
11. Click OK back through each menu.
12. Save changes in GateKeeper.

Please Note:

For clients using the NAT, and manual proxies, the process of restricting based on time is similar, however you must ensure that Transparent Redirection has been switched on in the WWW Proxy Server(for an article on Transparent Proxy please click here)

To configure clients using NAT and manual proxies:

1. Open GateKeeeper on the WinGate Server.
2. Open the WWW Proxy Server (Which is listed under the Services tab)
3. Select the Policies tab.
4. Ensure the Rights window at the top of the Policies tab has User can access these services selected.
5. Make sure the Default Rights (System Policies) are set to Ignored.
6. Click the add button below the Window.
7. Select the user(s)/groups to whom you want to restrict access by time.
8. Select the time tab and select Specify times when this recipient has rights.
9. Click add and you will be presented with the Time Slice dialog.
10. Choose the appropriate times you need to configure.
11. Click OK through each menu.
12. Save changes in GateKeeper.