Hi experts,
I want to know if there is any way that I can control internet access 'by each user' in a windows XP computer. The computer that I want internet disabled is part of a LAN and I still want that computer to continue to talk to other computers on the LAN.
If this is not possible, I like to know how I can disable the internet access for 'All users on that computer'. Thanks.
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I have a XP home user with the same question; he wants to be able to let his kids (with one account) use the PC, but not access the 'net, while he (on another account) would be allowed to.
I finally told him that the only way I could think of to let his kids use the PC but block 'net access, was for him to take his cable-modem with him to work. :)
(I wrote this comment mostly to ensure that I heard about it, if someone else came up with a solution)
You can use group policy for that.
From http://www.microsoft.com/t
Restrict Internet communication
The Restrict Internet communication policy setting controls Windows components that can access the Internet to accomplish tasks which require Internet resources. If you enable this setting, all the policy settings in the Internet Communication settings node are set to Enabled. This policy setting affects only the components managed by policy settings in the Internet Communication settings node of Group Policy Object Editor; the policy settings are described in the subsections that follow.
It is recommended that you configure the Restrict Internet communication policy setting in a separate GPO from any GPOs in which you configure the individual policy settings in the Internet Communication settings node. This approach allows you to provide stronger security for the computers in your organization.
For example, as a general rule, you might want to create highly restricted (locked-down) Group Policy configurations for your workstations to prevent Windows from communicating with the Internet to accomplish tasks related to all the Internet Communication Management policy settings. To do this, you can enable the Restrict Internet communication policy setting in a GPO and link that GPO to the target groups of computers and users.
If necessary, you can create separate GPOs to configure individual Internet Communication Management policy settings for users that might require access to some of the tasks controlled by these policy settings. You can then scope the application of the GPO by using security group filtering, and by using Group Policy options such as Enforced (previously known as No Override) or Block Inheritance to ensure that the policy settings are correctly applied to the target users and computers.
For more information about Group Policy processing and precedence, see the “Group Policy Infrastructure” white paper on the Microsoft Web site at http://go.microsoft.com/fw
Note:
If you view Restrict Internet communication and it is set as Not Configured, and you have configured individual Internet communication settings that you do not want to change, do not click Apply. If you click Apply, the Not Configured setting is applied to all the individual settings controlled by the Restrict Internet communication policy setting. That is, all settings contained in the Restrict Internet communication node are set as Not Configured.
uzairp.
If its only one pc you can test or set it like this.
Go to start - > run > type "gpedit.msc" without quotes (this starts the grouppolicy tool on that machine)
Then go to Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> System -> Internet Communication Management
here you have the following setting [Restrict Internet Communication] set it to enabled.
Thats it really.
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by: SteveJPosted on 2006-08-31 at 08:29:05ID: 17429789
Block the IP address of the workstation that you want to restrict at the router which passes traffic to the internet. Or are you saying that 2 different users use an XP machine and you want to allow User A access to the internet but deny User B access to the internet from the same machine?
Good luck,
Steve