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by basir_noutash

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Greetings,

I have a Vsat internet connection and an ICS network with Windows 2000 server (but I don't user the active directory- people do not logon to the server). I want to monitor the internet usage and amount of downloads occur by each user.
The only solution I know is to setup a proxy server. Does any one have a better solution. Can someone give me some information how proxy server works, do I need to enter a proxy setting in internet options of each user computer?

Thanks

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by budthegrey

Check out SmoothWall (http://www.smoothwall.org)

It is a Linux based proxy server, but if you are unfamiliar with Linux, don't worry. The installation is almost completely automated. In addition to being a firewall (i.e. blocks unsolicited incoming traffic), it can also be a transparent proxy. This lets it keep logs of where people go in the internet, without having to confgure a proxy on their machine.

Bud

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