Granting Google Verification with the Client Login Page

If you use Google verification with Connect for Chromebooks, your users must grant Google permission to verify who they are. However, where Connect for Chromebooks trusts the G Suite domain credentials, you don't have this because user credentials aren't verified with Google OAuth servers.

For your users to grant Google permission, you can point your Chromebook devices to a client login page that contains a Google Sign In button. This requests permission from the user to access their G Suite domain credentials.

You can customize the client login page, see our help topic, Customizing the Client Login Page. 

You can either configure the Chromebooks to open the client login page when the user logs into the Chromebook or the user can open the client login page manually.

Note: Disclaimer: The following instructions are correct at the time of writing. Google feature names and links might change over time.

Configure Chromebooks to Open the Client Login Page at Startup

  1. Log into Google with your administrator account.
  2. Follow the Google help topic, Make settings in your Admin console, until you reach the User & browser settings page. 
  3. Click the Organizational unit for the users that you want to install the Smoothwall Chrome extension for and configure these parameters under each of the sections:
    • Startup
      • Pages to load on startup: 
        • Startup pages:https://<hostname>:442/modules/auth/cgi-bin/google/login.fcgi
          • <hostname> is the fully qualified host name of the Smoothwall Filter and Firewall. For example, https://my.smoothwall.com:442/modules/auth/cgi-bin/google/login.fcgi.

Opening the Client Login Page Manually

When user verification is required, the Connect for Chromebooks extension is red.

  1. Click the Connect for Chromebooks extension icon.
  2. To open the client login page, click Go to the login page to authorize.
  3. Click Google's Sign In button.
  4. In the Request for Permission dialog box, click Accept.

Note: The permission request is only seen the first time the user logs into the Chromebook. Subsequent logins to the same Chromebook, or any other Chromebook on your network, are handled by Connect for Chromebooks for the life of that account on your G Suite domain.