Dell SonicWALL Secure Mobile Access 8.5
Administration Guide
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Answer
: It’s the same problem as noted in the previous topic, but this is the new “improved” security
warning screen in Microsoft Internet Explorer. Whereas before IE5.x and IE6.x presented a pop-up that
listed the reasons why the certificate is not trusted, IE simply returns a generic error page which
recommends that the user close the page. The user is not presented with a direct ‘Yes’ option to
proceed, and instead has to click on the embedded
Continue to this Website (not recommended)
link. For these reasons, it is strongly recommended that all SMA/SRA appliances, going forward, have a
trusted digital certificate installed.
3 I get the following message when I log in to my SMA/SRA appliance using Firefox– what do I do?
Answer
: Much like the errors shown previously for Internet Explorer, Firefox
has a unique error message
when any certificate problem is detected. The conditions for this error are the same as for the previous
Internet Explorer errors.
To get past this screen, click the
Or you can add an exception
link at the bottom, then click
Add
Exception
that appears. In the Add Security Exception window that opens, click
Get Certificate
, ensure
that
Permanently store this exception
is checked, and finally, click
Confirm Security Exception
. See
the following:
To avoid this inconvenience, it is strongly recommended that all SMA/SRA appliances, going forward,
have a trusted digital certificate installed.
