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Blocking user downloads
Published Friday, July 16, 2010 2:08 PM by General
in the hosted web security product, do we have the ability to set policy to block users from downloading files from websites? if so, is it all or nothing? or can we specify file type. if this is not available in hosted, is it something that the software...

Filtering Service Stops
Published Friday, July 16, 2010 5:47 AM by Network Deployment and Connectivity Issues
Hi, We have 2 V10000 boxes both pointing at the same policy server. Since changing the IP address of the policy server one of the V10K's can't keep it's filtering service running. It starts and then stops within 2 mins. The other V10k is fine...
Transparent Authentication issue
Published Thursday, July 15, 2010 2:07 PM by Network Deployment and Connectivity Issues
We are currently in the process of installing a pair of v10000G2 appliances and are having issues with the edirectory agent and transparent authentication. I have changed the debug level to 3 in the wsedir config file and can see users being added to...

How do I make "Log Server at ... is not running" go away?
Published Thursday, July 15, 2010 11:43 AM by Network Deployment and Connectivity Issues
I moved the manager/log server from one physical server to another, changing the IP address. I changed the mgmt address on the appliance front page, deleted the old DC Agent address (it found the new one itself), added the new log server and deleted the...
Error communicating with the directory server
Published Thursday, July 15, 2010 6:22 AM by Managing Policies for Clients
Normal 0 false false false EN-ZA X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 When I attempt to add a client and assign a filter policy to them, I receive the following error: “Error communicating with the directory server. Go to Settings > Directory...

Re-categorize ip address ranges
Published Thursday, July 15, 2010 5:54 AM by Websense Web Security
We'd like the ability for the product to be able to re-categorize ip address ranges. For example, if we know any URL that falls in the range 184.50.0.0 - 184.51.255.255 belongs to a vendor of ours, but Websense has not categorized every address in...
Windows Server 2008 R2
Published Wednesday, July 14, 2010 11:07 PM by Installation, Upgrade, and Deployment
Does Websense 7.5 TMG plugin support Windows Sever 2008 R2? If not, then why?...

Specifying which IP Websense Email Security uses....
Published Tuesday, July 13, 2010 7:03 AM by Configuration and Administration
I have a new installation, on a server with 2 NICS, and 2 IP's, and I would like to be able to specify which IP and PORT that the WES uses for its sending/recieving. Is this possible, and if so, whereabouts do I go to make that change active?...
Websense Subscription Key not working
Published Monday, July 12, 2010 9:23 PM by Installation, Upgrade, and Deployment
Hi There, I have Websense Web Security installed on my PC, 1st installation is perfectly normal, but after i re-install on the same PC and several subcription key (incluced 1st key for instalation). subscribe network users still on "zero", and...

can you allow clients to part of a site while blocking some of the site?
Published Monday, July 12, 2010 3:36 PM by Managing Policies for Clients
Can I allow my users to get to Craigslist (say to search for jobs) but then somehow block them from other content (singles/dating, etc)?...