Secure Mobile Access 12.4 Deployment Guide

Which Types of Resources Should Users Have Access To?

The SonicWall SMA appliance manages a wide variety of corporate resources, which fall into the categories described in the below table.

Resource type Examples Planning considerations
Web

Microsoft Outlook Web Access

Web-based applications

Web portals

Web servers

  • When specifying URLs to Web resources, include the http:// or https:// prefix.
  • Use aliases to obscure host names on private networks.
Client/server

Terminal servers (such as Citrix or WTS)

Microsoft Outlook Lotus Notes

Identify resources by host name, IP address or IP range, subnet IP address, or domain name.
File Shares

Network folders

Shared folders

Network browsing

Windows domains

  • A specific file system resource can be an entire server (for example, \\ginkgo), a shared folder (\\john\public), or a network folder (\\ginkgo\news).
  • Defining a Windows domain gives authorized users access to all network file resources.
SAML Service Provider

SAML identity providers (IdP)

SAML Identity Service

  • Identify SAML service provider by entity ID, name ID format, name ID value, URL for establishing sessions, message signing standard, and trusted certification authority for SAML messages.

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