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NOTE: These instructions apply only if you are using Wingate
2.X or another proxy-based program.
They do not apply if you are using ICS, Sygate, or any other NAT based
sharing program or hardware router.
If you've setup mail on your Client
computers, setting up News will be easy.
News applications require two TCP mapped links:
- a link to your news-group (NNTP) server on port 119;
- a link to your mail-forwarding (SMTP) server on port 25.
If you followed the mail setup instructions,
you already have a mapped port for SMTP on port 25, so you just need to
set up a mapped port on port 119.
To setup a TCP mapped link for News:
Make sure Wingate is running and login to the Gatekeeper
program.
Right click on the "Services" icon and select
New->Service->TCP Mapping Service.
Make the following entries in the specified Tabs of
the "TCP mapping service properties" dialog box:
General tab
Service Name - "News (NNTP) mapping"
Description - Leave as is or change if
you want
Connections to service- check the box and
enter "119" for the port #
Default mapping - check the box and enter
the name of your ISP's News server.
(The dialog box should look like this when you're done, except
that it will have your ISP's NNTP server information.)
Bindings tab
No changes are needed here. This tab should look like this,
except that the IP address in the lower "Available"
area will be different, or absent depending on whether you are
connected to the Internet while you are adding this service.
Interfaces tab
- Check that the "Connections will be made out on any
interface" radio button is selected.
Policies tab
Check that the Right "users can access
this service" is selected.
Check that the "Default rights (System policies)
drop down box shows "may be used instead".
Check that there are no Recipients specified
in the large middle box.
Logging tab
Select the "log these events" radio
button.
Select *at least* the following items:
* Session events: "Request details", "Session
traffic"
* Configuration events: "Configuration changes",
"Authorization changes"
Click "OK" to close the properties dialog
box and go to the Gatekeeper menu bar and click on the Save icon or
select File->Save from the menu
You should now have a "NNTP mapping" service
icon showing under the Services icon in gatekeeper and the
service should be running, i.e. shouldn't show an "X" icon.
The News service is now setup and running.
One more thing Before you can read news, you need to go to your news program
and set it to use your proxy server to read news.
To setup the Netscape Navigator (V 3.X) news reader:
Go to the menu Options->Mail and News Preferences
and select the "Servers" tab.
Enter "192.168.0.1" in the News(NNTP)
Server box.
Click the OK button to close the dialog box and
save the settings.
To setup the Netscape Navigator (V 4.X) news reader:
Go to the Edit menu and select Preferences.
Click on the "+" sign next to Mail &
Newsgroups.
Click on Newsgroup Servers.
Click Add and Enter "192.168.0.1"
in the Server box. Leave the other settings alone.
Click the OK button to close the dialog boxes
and save the settings.
To setup other news readers, check the WinGate help for
"News
Group Applications". Just remember to enter "192.168.0.1"
as the name of your news server and not "Wingate"
as described in the WinGate help.
NOTE: These instructions apply only if you are using Wingate
2.X or another proxy-based program. 
