Connectra -OWA-IE7

[hamag]

Hi Everybody,
This may help someone.
We had problems the first time some people began using Connectra to acces their mail with OWA (Outlook Web Acces)from the Internet.
The person could connect to the Portal and logged in but failed when trying to open the OWA link, they kept receiving a 401 Error.
Smart Tracker told us about Connectra rejecting the connection because of HTTP authentication failure.
This happened only with people using IE7.
People with IE6 or Firefox (either Windows or Linux) had no problems with OWA.
Our vendor told us that we had the R62 HFA1 already installed.
We tried munrog's solution but it didn't work ("Enable native XMLHTTP support")
We found a workaround (maybe it's not the perfect one but it worked)
We changed the IE7 configuration of the people having this peoblem.
The steps to do this are...
Internet Explorer 7 > Tools > Internet Options > Security > Trusted Sites > (add the URL of your Connectra)
After this you should set the corresponding security level of this zone to Medium-low or Low (this one is riskier)
It worked.

If somebody knows a better way I'd be grateful to know it.

hamag

[chillyjim]

A lot of the security settings changed for IE7, so this probably your best bet. That said though, what version are you running? (R62/R62CM HFA1 (2?) is current).

[hamag]

Originally Posted by chillyjim

A lot of the security settings changed for IE7, so this probably your best bet. That said though, what version are you running? (R62/R62CM HFA1 (2?) is current).

A fwver command in my Connectra gives me this:
This is Check Point VPN-1(TM) & FireWall-1(R) NGX R62CM - Build 48
I suppose this answers your question :-)

[chillyjim]

Originally Posted by hamag

A fwver command in my Connectra gives me this:
This is Check Point VPN-1(TM) & FireWall-1(R) NGX R62CM - Build 48
I suppose this answers your question :-)

If I could ever remember build numbers to HFA's :)

There are two patches you want to make sure are installed R62CM_HFA01 and "Security Hotfix 7" which you can get from Check Point Software: Connectra HFAs.

[hamag]

Originally Posted by chillyjim

If I could ever remember build numbers to HFA's :)

There are two patches you want to make sure are installed R62CM_HFA01 and "Security Hotfix 7" which you can get from Check Point Software: Connectra HFAs.

Thanks for the information.