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NetPilot V4 'How To' documents
Index for the How to Chapters V4
Index for All Chapters for V4
Index for the How to Chapters V4
Index for All Chapters for V4
Chapter 1 - Start up
(a): What each link on the welcome page is.
(b): How Admin or a User can log in from the Internet
(c): How to choose the correct option/s from the drop down list on the Connections main screen.
(d): How to manually configure your NetPilot, using a public IP address on the Internet connection.
(f): This document will assit you in migrating your Version 3 configurations to a Version 5 unit in the Aladin Upgrade scheme, including users and emails.
Chapter 2 - Factory Reset
(a): How to Factory Reset the NetPilot using a monitor and keyboard. This method is without the use of the management screens.
(b): How to Factory Reset your NetPilot via the Management Screens.
Chapter 3 - Change the Cache size and Clearing the Cache
(a): How to change the size of the cache on your NetPilot.
(b): How to Clear the Cache on your NetPilot.
Chapter 4 - Time
(a): How to add a Network Time Protocol Server to your NetPilot.
(b): How to delete a Network Time Protocol Server on your NetPilot
(c): How to set the Time and Date manually.
(d): How to set the TimeZone on your NetPilot.
Chapter 5 - Static Routes
(a): How to add a static route to your NetPilot.
(b): How to delete a static route from your NetPilot.
Chapter 6 - DNS Server
(a): How to enter a DNS server on your NetPilot.
(b): How to delete a DNS server from your NetPilot.
Chapter 7 - Port forwarding
(a): How to set up Port forwarding on your NetPilot, with the Standard Firewall.
(b): How to set up Port Forwarding on your NetPilot with the Advanced Firewall.
(c): How to set up pcAnywhere on your NetPilot using the Advanced Firewall.
(d): How to port-forward VNC from specific hosts to a single host on a customer's LAN.
(e): How to port-forward VNC from any host on the Internet to a single host on a customer's LAN.
(f): How to port-forward VNC coming from any ost on the Internet to serveral different hosts on the LAN.
Chapter 8 - Reboot
How to reboot your NetPilot.
Chapter 9 - User Accounts
(a): How to add, edit, copy or delete a User Account on your NetPilot.
(c): How to select V3 Web Authentication options on your V4 NetPilot.
A brief description for each of the new options given.
Chapter 10 - Interface List
How to view the Interface List on your NetPilot.
Chapter 11 - Network Diagnostics
How to view the Network Diagnostics on your NetPilot.
Chapter 12 - Time Bands
How to change the Time Bands on your Net/Cache/SecurePilot.
Chapter 13 - Active Directory
(a): How to add Site Lists and Groups to your Net/Cache/SecurePilot.
(b): How to add a 'User' to your Net/Cache/SecurePilot that will match your Active Directory 'Security Group'.
How to set-up your Net/Cache/SecurePilot to use Active Directory Integration on a Windows 2000/2003 Server.
(c): How to isolate an individual user's web activity when they are a member of a Group in Active Directory.
Chapter 14 - Site Lists
Allowing Blocked Sites at a Specific Time:
How to add a Whitelist with the specific sites
How to add a Timebands to specify when the site can and cannot be visited
How to add the Whitelist to the Global Group to apply all users.
Chapter 15 - Passwords
(a): How to change the Admin Password.
How to Admin can change a User's Password.
(b): How a user can change their own Password.
Chapter 16 - CSV Lists
How to set-up CSV lists on your NetPilot.
Chapter 17 - SmartFilter
A comparsion of N2H2 to Smartfilter URL filtering categories
All of the Smartfilter URL filtering categories listed with Equiinet's recommendations for category blocking, a short description of each category and a few example URL's will be listed.
Chapter 18 - Webmail and email
(a): How to set up your email, in the below sections; Changing Email Server settings, Email Times, User Accounts and Configure Email Client e.g. Outlook
(b): How to allow access to Webmail from a PC client with a fixed IP Address
How to allow access to Webmail from a PC client without a fixed IP Address
How to use Webmail
(b): Hardcopy of the Webmail help file
(c): How to permit an external address to Mail Relay through your NetPilot.
(d): Some explainations of words used in the email logs.
(e): How to copy an internal user's email to an external account.
(f): How to change the Administrator's Email Address on the NetPilot.
Chapter 21 - Licences
(a): How to add a licence on your NetPilot.
(b): How to delete a licence on your NetPilot.
Chapter 22 - User Groups
22: General Information about User Groups
(a): How to create a 'Group' on your NetPilot, and general information.
(b): How to delete a 'Group' on your NetPilot.
Chapter 23 - Upgrading & Registering
(a): How to upgrade you NetPilot from 4.0.x to 4.2.2
(b): How to register your Netpilot on-line.
Chapter 24 - Privacy/Proxy
(a): How to change the 'Privacy settings' on your NetPilot.
What each 'Privacy setting' does and what the extra headers text box is for.
(b): HTTP headers
(c): How to set your proxy settings correctly on your web browser.
Chapter 25 - Email Filtering Policy
25: Quick Start to reducing Spam.
(a): What each Email Filter Policy 'Settings' allows you to do
Understanding the structure of the Email Filter Policy Tree
What makes up the Email Filter Policy Tree?
(aa): The three options of Email Filter Policy 'Settings' explained in more detail
(ab): How to activate the 'forward a copy' 'Action' in the 'Policy Tree'
(ac): Templates
(ad): Actions
(ae): Auto Responder
(af): Patterns
(ag): Policies
(b): How to teach the NetPilot Bayesian Ham and Spam Emails by using the Spam and Virus Licences
How to reclassify emails as Ham or Spam
(ba): How to add a reclassify footer to emails using Email Filter Policy, which will allow admin and any other user to reclassify their mail as Ham or Spam
(bb): How any user can reclassify their emails if the reclassify footer is not shown
(c): How to classify single or bulk amounts of emails caught in Quarantine
How to view summaries of the email headers and the full email headers
A brief description of the options given in the drop down list of Quarantine
(d): How to view the mails gone through the NetPilot and Reclassify them if necessary
How to view the summaries of the email headers and the full email headers
(e): How to block domains, specific email addresses, words or phrases
(f): How to allow domains, specific email addresses, words or phrases
(g): How to block or allow a certain size or type of an Attachment (Use Chapter 25 (ga) in conjunction with this Chapter)
(ga): List of attachments and the string which should be entered into a 'Pattern' within the Email Filter Policy
(h): How to create an Out-of-Office rule in the Email Filtering Policy section, this is broken down into the following four sections: Creating a Template, an Action, a Pattern, and entering the Out-of-Office function
(i): How to create a rule for the whole company to send internal mail only
How to create a rule for one or many individual/s to send internal mail only
Chapter 26 - VPN and Other Network Profiles
26: A definition of each Trust Group that is in the firewall, and a definition of each Network Profile.
(a): How to configure an IPSec VPN connection from a NetPilot or PC to NetPilot.
(b): How to configure a CIPE VPN connection from one NetPilot to another.
(c): How to configure a RoadWarrior profile
(d): How to add a VPN tunnel via SafeNet SoftRemote Client.
(e): How to edit, delete and de/activate a VPN Profile.
(f): How to set-up an Open VPN Roadwarrior profile (for System Administrator's). !!!! With Vista Tips!!!!
(f): An excel Spreadsheet that you can edit to match your own IP range and allocate users the correct Virtual IP Address.
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