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When you have many user on your organization. local user management on pfsense may not easy to manage user. Free radius is user management that better than local user management. It can limit bandwidth per user apply on captive portal, static IP for user, etc.

When you create devices or group device you can apply it on policy or captive portal. 2 ways to add device on fortigate firewall as detail below; 1. Scan device on your network by using "network device scan" feature on fortigate firewall interface after on feature you ill have device list on your network and you can add new device item now 2. Add MAC address into device item.

When you create user or group user you can apply user or group user on policy firewall. Example 1. Users on IT department access to all server on DMZ zone but users on accounting department should be access specific server that relate with accounting department. you can create 2 policy for IT users and accounting users by using local user and group user Example 2. Users and group user can use on captive portal

NTP is time server provide time protocol for any system to sync time with NTP effect to any system have same date&time. Many system on the world using difference timezone. When you choose NTP server and then you should select timezone for your location soon. On pfsense can specific NTP server and change timezone for your location. Step As Video  

You can use port forwarding for any service port such as RDP, FTP, SSH, HTTP, HTTPS. Port forwarding improve easy to access any service on private network from any where but port forward have not authentication for check authorization so it is low security. In some case such as HTTP, HTTPS (public website only) port forwarding are accept because HTTP,HTTPS is public service user around the world should be access from any where. In this case I will show port forwarding  for RDP. Step As Video   

You can use DHCP server to distribute IP address to your client. When client plug-in network and not config static IP address a DHCP server will distribute IP address to client. If client have an IP address client will access to your network such as Internet, RDP, File sharing or etc. I have a video to show "How to enable DHCP server on pfsense"  Step as Video