Problems with clients unclicking Proxy in IE5

[skendrick]

Hi,

I recently installed a proxy server for our students at the school I work for so they could not view certain sites, and to speed up some stuff. They all are Windows 98SE computers with Internet Explorer 5. The proxy worked for a while but now they figured out that all they have to do is uncheck proxy and they can view pretty much what ever they want. Is their any way to make it where they cannot do this? Like some kind of security policy or something to make them use the proxy or either have no Internet.

Thanks,
Sterling Kendrick

 

[mattjurado]

What is your internet setup like? What proxy server package are you running? This is something that could be controlled by most proxy packages... If your proxy server is resolving DNS queries correctly, you should be able to remove the DNS settings on each workstation, and they won't be able to resolve

http://www.anything.com

unless they use the proxy server...

Matt

 

[skendrick]

I am currently running Windows 2000 Advanced Server and have ISA installed as the proxy. Could you explain how to do this, to make them have to use my proxy or get nothing. I am new with this proxy stuff.

Thanks,
Sterling

 

[Jontmke]

There is a Policy setting for IE that will remove that page when going into the tools\internet options. That way they can not even see the "connections" page.



Jon

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. (Bertrand Russell)

 

[skendrick]

Could you please tell me where this policy is and how to make it work.

Thanks,
Sterling

 

[Jontmke]

Ok, in win95\98 it is in poledit.exe or Policy Editor. On a winnt/2000 server it would be gpedit.msc or Group Policy.

The win98 Resource kit has very good explanations and the software needed.

In a nutshell: you create a policy and save it on the network and when the user logs in the policies are implemented on the pc.

In a school these settings and a lot of others should be implemented. Kids know computers more than there teachers some times and could be doing all kinds of improper stuff on your pc's without strict policies.

Jon

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. (Bertrand Russell)