Web Station!

[Andrew J. Mutch]

Anna,

I have posted a few web pages that explain how to use the Proxy settings
in Navigator to restrict access to a select set of web sites.  This is a
very technical-friendly solution for those who need to configure a handful
of workstations this way.  If you are looking to set restrictions on a
larger number of workstations, investigate the use of a proxy server or
some of the other ideas that have been posted to Web4Lib in the
past(you can find them in the archives).

My pages are at:

http://tln.lib.mi.us/~nort/tech/lockin.htm

Let me know if you have any questions.

Andrew Mutch
Northville District Library
Northville, MI



On Sun, 5 Apr 1998, Anna Lau wrote:

> Hi, all! I need to set up some Web stations which allows patrons to go
> to
> some web based database. We use WinSelect to restrict patrons using some
> 
> menu items. We have also remove all entries from the bookmark files and
> set the files to read only. But we have difficulties to disable the
> bookmark function. And the bookmark function enables some of the items
> we
> have disabled. Does anyone have any idea how to resolve this problem?
> Another problem we have is, we would like the patron be able to mail the
> 
> search result to their own account, hence we use communicator standard
> version rather than navigator standalone version. Similar problem as the
> 
> bookmark function, once send mail function is launched, some items are
> enabled even we have disabled them. Does anyone know a way to get around
> 
> this? We also want to restrict patrons use the mail function only to
> send
> themselves the search result. Any suggestion is appreciated. Thanks!
>                                                                 ANNA
> 
>