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Carpeia
10-08-2007, 15:45
Hey folks,

Im gonna set up a laptop in the store, that only are allowed to visit 2 sites.

Reason is, i dont want it there so kids can abuse it and put lots of porn sites as "homepage" etc... :-)

Will run normal win xp on it, and its connected to my wlan here.

Hope some of you can help me out. :-)
hinch
10-08-2007, 16:30
use a router with site blocking on the network rather than doing it in software
giga191
10-08-2007, 16:33
Hey folks,

Im gonna set up a laptop in the store, that only are allowed to visit 2 sites.

Reason is, i dont want it there so kids can abuse it and put lots of porn sites as "homepage" etc... :-)

Will run normal win xp on it, and its connected to my wlan here.

Hope some of you can help me out. :-) iirc you can make websites viewable offline, and then you can turn off the internet. The only problem is that they won't be up to date unless you update them regularly
Carpeia
10-08-2007, 17:08
Was hoping to not use a router for it, and just use the current one i got set up. (which i use for all stuff in my office).

But got a solution from a guy..

"And after a bit of thinking ( not alot of thinking :P ) ... i found the easy solution :P

Ok here we go :

Open Hosts file , enter the 2 sites you want to be visible into the hosts file in the following sheme

123.123.123.123 websitea.com
234.234.234.234. websiteb.com


Disable your DNS on your computer

Bring up TCP/IP properties of you WLAN connection, check if DNS obtaining is set to auto, if it is remove it and use 127.0.0.1 (localhost) as your DNS.

From now on all sites will be blocked, but the 2 sites you want to be visible :)"
Micky
11-08-2007, 01:14
use a router with site blocking on the network rather than doing it in software


!!!

Basic straight forward block everything apart from the 2 sites on the allow list and nothing else can used period not even msn or some other program.
Avoch
11-08-2007, 08:27
And make sure its running on a guest account so they can't even get a hold of your settings.
nonamebrandeggs
11-08-2007, 09:15
http://www.kioskcd.com/

You can boot this straight from the CD and ensure your hard drive can't be affected. It runs firefox and is supposed to be pretty easy to use.