[WEB4LIB] Disable History File

[Andrew Mutch]

Laurie,

Check out my main help page here:

http://northville.lib.mi.us/tech/netscape.html

which includes links to the help pages on how to automate clearing the
history and location bar in Netscape.
I think from what I remember the IE experts have said is that the best you
can do with IE is set the history to zero days.

One place to get started with NT security for public access machines is Bob
Sullivan's site at:

http://www.scpl.org/publicnt/

and Tim Kambitsch also covers NT at his site for locking down Netscape:

http://www.dayton.lib.oh.us/~kambitsch/netscape-hacks.html

Let me know if you have any questions and good luck!

Andrew Mutch
Library Systems Technician
Waterford Township Public Library
Waterford, MI






Laurie Schladweiler wrote:

> It seems redundant to say what a help this list is (and has been).  I
> checked the archives and didn't find exactly what our techs are looking
> for.  We want to run IE and Netscape on NT (Compaq pc's) and want to
> deactivate the history file on both.  In Netscape, we have the History
> file set to 0 days.  That works, but, is there a way to disable the
> location bar history?  Scenario would be that one user sits down after
> another who has not logged out or restarted and we do not want any
> history to be saved.  We want to accomplish the same thing in IE.  Our
> techs are using  policy editor but it's their first time so it's posing
> quite a challenge.  (They were used to Fortress and Win95.)
>
> Also, is there a way in NT to have the IE and Netscape icons sit on the
> desktop so that patrons do not have to go through "Start up" and
> "Programs" first to choose a program?
>
> Finally, is there a site I could recommend that would have pointers for
> NT security with both IE and Netscape?  I know many you have long since
> passed this point--thanks for your patience!
>
> Thank you in advance!!
>
> Laurie Schladweiler
> West Campus Library
> Pima Community College
> Tucson, AZ 85704
> 520-206-6821