diff --git a/frontend/src/components/EmbeddingSelection/OllamaOptions/index.jsx b/frontend/src/components/EmbeddingSelection/OllamaOptions/index.jsx
index 74c24f80..606ea464 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/EmbeddingSelection/OllamaOptions/index.jsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/EmbeddingSelection/OllamaOptions/index.jsx
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ export default function OllamaEmbeddingOptions({ settings }) {
     showAdvancedControls,
     setShowAdvancedControls,
     handleAutoDetectClick,
+    authToken,
+    authTokenValue,
   } = useProviderEndpointAutoDiscovery({
     provider: "ollama",
     initialBasePath: settings?.EmbeddingBasePath,
@@ -48,13 +50,13 @@ export default function OllamaEmbeddingOptions({ settings }) {
             data-tooltip-id="max-embedding-chunk-length-tooltip"
             className="flex gap-x-1 items-center mb-3"
           >
+            <label className="text-white text-sm font-semibold block">
+              Max embedding chunk length
+            </label>
             <Info
               size={16}
               className="text-theme-text-secondary cursor-pointer"
             />
-            <label className="text-white text-sm font-semibold block">
-              Max embedding chunk length
-            </label>
             <Tooltip id="max-embedding-chunk-length-tooltip">
               Maximum length of text chunks, in characters, for embedding.
             </Tooltip>
@@ -134,13 +136,13 @@ export default function OllamaEmbeddingOptions({ settings }) {
               data-tooltip-id="ollama-batch-size-tooltip"
               className="flex gap-x-1 items-center mb-3"
             >
+              <label className="text-white text-sm font-semibold block">
+                Embedding batch size
+              </label>
               <Info
                 size={16}
                 className="text-theme-text-secondary cursor-pointer"
               />
-              <label className="text-white text-sm font-semibold block">
-                Embedding batch size
-              </label>
               <Tooltip id="ollama-batch-size-tooltip">
                 Number of text chunks to embed in parallel. Higher values
                 improve speed but use more memory. Default is 1.
@@ -163,6 +165,31 @@ export default function OllamaEmbeddingOptions({ settings }) {
               faster embedding.
             </p>
           </div>
+          <div>
+            <label className="text-white font-semibold block mb-3 text-sm">
+              Auth Token (optional)
+            </label>
+            <input
+              type="password"
+              name="OllamaLLMAuthToken"
+              className="border-none bg-theme-settings-input-bg text-white placeholder:text-theme-settings-input-placeholder text-sm rounded-lg focus:outline-primary-button active:outline-primary-button outline-none block w-full p-2.5"
+              placeholder="Enter your Auth Token"
+              defaultValue={settings?.OllamaLLMAuthToken ? "*".repeat(20) : ""}
+              value={authTokenValue.value}
+              onChange={authToken.onChange}
+              onBlur={authToken.onBlur}
+              required={false}
+              autoComplete="off"
+              spellCheck={false}
+            />
+            <p className="text-xs leading-[18px] font-base text-white text-opacity-60 mt-2">
+              Enter a <code>Bearer</code> Auth Token for interacting with your
+              Ollama server.
+              <br />
+              Used <b>only</b> if running Ollama behind an authentication
+              server.
+            </p>
+          </div>
         </div>
       </div>
     </div>
diff --git a/server/utils/EmbeddingEngines/ollama/index.js b/server/utils/EmbeddingEngines/ollama/index.js
index 150998f5..de5db4f0 100644
--- a/server/utils/EmbeddingEngines/ollama/index.js
+++ b/server/utils/EmbeddingEngines/ollama/index.js
@@ -15,7 +15,11 @@ class OllamaEmbedder {
       ? Number(process.env.OLLAMA_EMBEDDING_BATCH_SIZE)
       : 1;
     this.embeddingMaxChunkLength = maximumChunkLength();
-    this.client = new Ollama({ host: this.basePath });
+    this.authToken = process.env.OLLAMA_AUTH_TOKEN;
+    const headers = this.authToken
+      ? { Authorization: `Bearer ${this.authToken}` }
+      : {};
+    this.client = new Ollama({ host: this.basePath, headers });
     this.log(
       `initialized with model ${this.model} at ${this.basePath}. Batch size: ${this.maxConcurrentChunks}, num_ctx: ${this.embeddingMaxChunkLength}`
     );