Restricting Internet Access

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Ken West

I am deploying Thin Clients into a shop environment. I
do not want the users to be able to access the Internet,
but they do need access to our Intranet.

I assigned static IPs and put a bogus gateway, but that
didn't block them. Do they get the gateway from the
server?

Any thoughts on how I can prevent internet access on
these thin clients?

Ken
 
Is there no way to configure settings without spending
more money? This shop only has 10 Thin Clients on the
floor that they want to restrict. I can't see convincing
the front office to spend $1500 plus implementation costs
to accomplish this. Before we began replacing PCs with
Thin Clients, we simply left the gateway blank in the IP
configuration and they could not get past the gateway.
They could still see the office intranet though.

I look forward to more thoughts on this issue.

Ken
 
Try this:

Configure a proxy server for all users, with a
GPO, that points to your local Intranet website.

Group Policy - User Configuration - Windows Settings - Internet
Explorer Maintenance - Connection - Proxy Settings
 
Did you try configuring a bogus proxy server and checking
the bypass proxy server for local address's. Gives them
local intranet access and an error when they try and surf
outside. They may be able to change the proxy so you
might want to check that out..
 
Here ya go! (i'm using this same method and it works great! and it's FREE
and simple)

Go to IE (ver 6), Tools, Internet Options, enable the Content Advisor. Under
the approved sites tab put NEVER on *.* (restricting all domains) and then
include the sites that you want to allow (IE: http: //www.google.com/*)

Hope this helps

Jeff O'Dell
Information Technology Manager
JP Thomas, Inc.
Office: (336) 483-0015
(e-mail address removed)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken West" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: Microsoft.public.win2000.termserv.clients
Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 2:49 PM
Subject: Restricting Internet Access
 
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