Locking down a computer to one site.

Is this easy / hard / possible?

[AsleepATheWheel]

Hi,

I want to set up a single Windows XP machine in a shop. This will have a net connection. What I want to happen is for this to be restricted to one, possibly two sites, so if the surfer tries to leave them they can’t. Is there an easy way of doing this?

I would also want to stop any other programs being launched, or the browser being closed down, so they are effectively stuck with a browser, pointing to one site.

Thanks for any help,

Paul

[claus]

AFAIK, you should search for a term called "Kiosk mode" - IE has supported it for a while.

[benihana]

and maybe check out this thread [webmasterworld.com...]

[AsleepATheWheel]

Cheers Claus,

I've had a look at the kiosk mode which seems to be pretty ideal, apart from you can Alt f4 out of it, and still bring up the Task Manager. However, for the purpose we are intending to use it, we could simply disable these keys.

So I guess my main question now is can we stop people going to a different domain to the one we want them on? This site has outgoing links on it, we just want the user of this kiosk not to be able to follow them. Can this be done through an ie setting, or could anyone recommend any software that would be able to do it?

Benihana - Thanks for the link, I looked for something like it earlier but couldn't find anything.

[pixel_juice]

I would use a firewall and block all traffic apart from to the site(s) you want to allow. I never had much faith in IE's in built security ;)

You might also want to try going to Run in the start menu and typing gpedit.msc and having a poke around in there. (Group policy editor). This allows you to turn off various operating system features, including the task manager I think.

(I'm pretty sure this feature is in XP, otherwise you might be better off using win2k as it is easier to secure than XP.)