Limit internet access

Clarifications

you gotta have a router on your network. Block Internet access from there. This sounds a little tedious, but if it's peer to peer, than it's small, right? Gather the MAC addresses of the peers and block them from accessing the Internet in the router.

there's gotta be a better way to do that, and I would like to see what someone else says.

That's very interesting that the office computers must be blcoked and the shop ones are fine. In my company, it's vice versa.

Being new to the field using a DNS loopback is really an ingenius step. Good going! but the above poster is right. you need something at the front end to manage access. if your network is really small, just a router would be fine. if you are using 15+ computers or just want to internally control everything and host your own email i would go ahead and get sbs2003.

GPEDIT.MSC will do the trick for you. Follow these instructions on the last post.

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/157849-45-hide-connections

Thanks for the ideas, I'm looking forward to implementing them.

I didn't phrase it very well, but it is the computers in the shop that need to be blocked.

Kudos for putting the loopback in the DNS go to my wife's uncle Phil.