Enabling Websense to Find Domain Objects

After setting up Websense Enterprise Server to be your faithful proxy server, you would probably want to add some domain groups and manage them.

To do that you right click on the Websense console, select "Add Directory Objects..."

"Select Objects to Add" box opens up. And you double click the "Directory" folder.

But instead of showing up the domain objects, you get an error telling you to check the "Directory Service"configuration under the "Settings" menu. If you read the help files, then you SHOULD know that you won't need to mess with the Directory Settings, as the "Windows NT Directory/Active Directory (Mixed Mode) option should be selected.

What you NEED to do is to simply give permissions to a service.

"Websense User Service" and "Websense DC Agent" needs to access the domain controllers. Therefore, right click on one of the services, select "Properties". On the "Log On" tab, select "This Account" and enter your domain admin credentials. Do this for the services mentioned above. Restart the services. All done!