Win XP Security software

[tesm]

Hi,
Hope someone can help me with this, I'm an administrator in a School, and I have 6 stand alone XP stations. On these stations I need some software that will allow me to
create about 30 seperate user areas on the HDD so that each student has acess only to his own area and files.

I know that something can be done using XP itself, but I don't feel that this is secure enough. Any Ideas anyone?

Terry

 

[rrsub]

Automatic logging in does that. Nothig else needed as long as NTFS is used as the file system.

 

[Mattb7]

Not sure what you mean by "automatic logging in does that." I think you need to create an account on the computer for each of the kids, making them standard users. This will give them access to their own desktop and my documents, and not allow them to see the other users MyDocuments folders or desktops.

 

[bcastner]

Mattb7,

Yes, that was my thinking exactly. Add the thirty users, and logon once for each to create a unique profile (non-sharable by default) for each.

Note that even the Administrator does not have privileges to these profiles by default.

But OP tesm has a concern: "I know that something can be done using XP itself, but I don't feel that this is secure enough."

I am not certain of the details of this concern. Personally, my concern would be having 30 profiles cluttering each workstation hard disk drive.

I would do everything in my power to have a single logon, no saved information by users, and a clean slate for each new user. All would be warned to use floppies to save their data. Otherewise it would be gone.

. one approach would be to use mandatory profiles, and use the GPO to not save a local profile cache. Every student would be warned that if there files are not stored to, say a floppy disk, they are gone.

. DeepFreeze, offers a reasonable way to have a single profile:

http://www.deepfreezeusa.com/

. For the cash strapped school, I have used Symantec's "GoBack" to do a revert to a known installation. You can pick up on E-Bay licenses for Norton SystemWorks 2003 for around US $6