[WEB4LIB] Re: Computer labs...controlling programs that can be run

[Luis Domingues]

We have developed PACfilter, which is freely available at
http://www.libri.ucp.pt/systems/general/pacfilter/default.htm and we have NT
machines with policies and Norton Ghost so that we can
1) Refuse access to some windows (like "save as"), using pacfilter
2) Refuse access to some sites (x-rated, for example), using pacfilter
3) Restrict access to the task manager, using policies
4) Rebuild a workstation with a CD image made with Norton Ghost in 2 minutes
(and more five minutes to change the IP address, machine name and domains,
because we only have one image for all PC's)

Regards,


Luis Filipe F. F. Domingues                   E-Mail: lfd at libri.ucp.pt
Biblioteca Universitária João Paulo II        Home Page:
http://www.libri.ucp.pt/
Universidade Católica Portuguesa              Tel: +351 21 7214019
Palma de Cima                                 Fax: +351 21 7214010
1600 Lisboa
Portugal

-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib at webjunction.org [mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org]On
Behalf Of Alma E. Garcia
Sent: Quinta-feira, 2 de Março de 2000 20:53
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: Computer labs...controlling programs that can be run


Last summer we opened up a Bibliographic Instuction Room that on weekends
is open to students as a "lab".  We are using Deep Freeze from WinSelect
to keep the destktop just the way we want them.  You can find out more at
www.winselect.com

We have not had any problems with this software.  If something gets
changes a reboot takes the PC back to the configuration  we want.  It does
make the reboot run a little slow, but it has done the trick for us in our
setting.




On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Charles P. Hobbs wrote:

>
> We're thinking of setting up a computer lab in the library. Web browsers,
> Office 2000 programs, and various pieces of educational software are ok,
> but people bringing in video games and running them would not be. What
> sort of software would be good in preventing "outside" software from
> running (we plan to leave all the disk drives accessable, locking them, as
> we do now, is not an option).
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> Thanks!
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Alma Garcia
Library System Administrator
almag at mills.edu
(510)430-2021