Shawn, thanks I initially thought about using the IE permit/deny sites option but then noticed that you can change that even without admin rights. Filtering on the router isn't really an option in this application since these are mobile laptops. I didn't think about using he Win 7 outgoing firewall to filter based upon destination address. I will have to look into that one further to see if it is possible. Thanks Frank -----Original Message----- From: blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Sean Murphy Sent: Monday, July 12, 2010 7:26 AM To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Limiting access to only a few web sites Frank, What are they using as their router? do they want to block all sites but the ones they want to access? I haven't tried it. But I wonder if Windows firewall could do the trick here? If not, what about the setting in IE and Firefox blocking/permitting sites in the security options? Sean ----- Original Message ----- From: "Frank Ventura" <Frank.Ventura@littlebreezes.com> To: "Blind sysadmins list" <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Sent: Monday, July 12, 2010 6:19 AM Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Limiting access to only a few web sites
Hi all, I have a user that needs to limit internet access to only a few specific sites. There is no budget for this so something like ISA is out of the question. What I did was take out the DNS entries and then added those few sites to the HOSTS file. This worked for a while but they wanted to control the list of sites themselves and no matter how much I tried they weren't comfortable editing the HOSTS file (In Win 7) because the procedure is difficult. You have to run notepad as an administrator and then open the file from within notepad which is a bear to find. With XP I could simply put a shortcut to the HOSTS file on their desktop. Does anyone have any suggestions to make this easier on them? Screen reader friendly is a must. Tia Frank
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