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How to limit accessibility to users.

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by enriquehernz 1 view

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Hi all, I have an employee who keep giggling, as I am suspecting him either downloading movies or actually playing movies on his cd-rom. I am taking care of the cd-rom accessibility because he doesn't really need it. But my question is, how can I limit his accessibility to sites which he shouldn't be perusing around in?

I know my router offers filtering and URL blocking, but I am confused as to blocking ports for him to prevent him from using P2P sharing programs and music downloading.

Thanks all!

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by supageeky

I'm not into blocking websites, and from the sounds of it, you probably should be dealing with the user's permissions on the local machine. I'd recommend, if this is a Windows OS, to make the user a Restricted User. This will protect the computer from having applications installed, device drivers installed, configuring Windows, essentially making the PC not so fun for the semi-pro user.

Edit your original posting to inlcude more details about the computer and network enviornment & hardware.

by naughtymonkey

a proxy and some monitoring utilities. You should at least see what they are doing and present it to their manager before you just cut off access. As for watching movies, tell them you need DVD read capabilities on another machine so you will be replacing their DVD ROM with a CD ROM. If they complain, you know they were watching DVDs.

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