It’s not that hard of a stretch to see that if you are using LDAP integration, you could essentially build guest accounts and profiles in LDAP and then leverage that guest group in the same ways we’ve shown above. However, that may be more time consuming then necessary for administrators, especially when guests come and go frequently. SonicOS supports creating local Guest Accounts within the context of the appliance’s internal guest services. This makes it easy to rapidly create guest accounts, retire guest accounts, and set restriction policies on guests such as time allowed online, CFS, login uniqueness and so forth.
To setup wireless guest services please follow the directions in the following knowledge base articles:
•Wireless: How to manually configure the Wireless Guest Services (WGS) in SonicOS Standard
•Wireless: How to manually configure WGS (Wireless Guest Services) in SonicOS Enhanced (Tz Series)
•Wireless: How to manually configure WGS (Wireless Guest Services) in SonicOS Enhanced (SonicWALL Pro Units)
•Wireless: Creating Users in Wireless Guest Services (WGS) i
LHM – Lightweight Hotspot Messaging – External Authentication for Wireless Users
LHM, while outside the scope of this document, does warrant mention here. LHM provides a mechanism to authenticate wireless hotspot users to a backend server. For example, coffee shops, restaurants, and hotels, have used LHM to build custom portals with their means of authenticating users, billing customers for usage, and tracking accounts. Sonicwall provides the tools necessary to deliver such a solution in a flexible manner.
More information can be found in the Sonicwall KB articles by searching for “LHM” as well as the following link. http://www.sonicwall.com/downloads/SonicWALL_LHM.pdf
Created by Rob Andrews 4/30/09 with references & content from existing Sonicwall KB articles
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