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      escworm
      last edited by

      Hello everyone!

      I'm fairly new on using pfsense, but it's awesome!

      I have one question:
      I have maybe 50-80 computers connected to my pfsense firewalls, and I was wondering… can I force all computers to go automatic to for example google.com when they start their browsers? And after this force to page, they can freely visit any website they want to?

      Best regards.

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      • stephenw10S
        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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        You can use the captive portal to display a locally hosted page one time per session. I guess you could direct clients to an external page instead, I've not tried that.

        https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Captive_Portal_Setup

        Steve

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          escworm
          last edited by

          I tried capitive portal. Seems like an awesome tool. I tried it and a login window popped up for everyone. Odd surprise.

          So, I tried both no auth and user manager… but can I somehow do so for example:
          user starts browser, instead of login window the user will automatic get a session and get redirected to the forced site?

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          • stephenw10S
            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
            last edited by

            Like I say I would have thought you could but I've never tried it. You would have to code you own page to do it, there are a number of threads on the forum relating to that.

            Steve

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              loupalladino
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              Any reason you want to do this with pfsense as opposed to the various OS tools (i.e. Windows group policy, if you have it)?

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              • stephenw10S
                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                last edited by

                A network of laptops, tablets and phones like a coffee shop. Or maybe a mixed OS environment. Many reasons.  ;)

                Steve

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                  loupalladino
                  last edited by

                  I understand why someone would want to use Captive Portal; was just asking the original poster for his/her specific reason in case there were other options.

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                  • stephenw10S
                    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                    last edited by

                    Sorry I slightly misread your question there. I thought you were asking in general.

                    Steve

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