Re: Can Windows Firewall do this?

From: Admiral Q (Star_Fleet_Admiral_Q(NOSPAM)_at_(SPAMNOT)hotmail.com)
Date: 02/07/05 

Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 18:07:30 -0500

This is done most of the time with the use of a "Proxy Server". 

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"D.P. Roberts" <dproberts@pbride.com> wrote in message
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> Our Unix guy claims this can't be done with Windows:
>
> We have a lab at a university with 40 Windows XP Pro computers on a
Windows
> 2003 Active Directory domain. Normally, these computers are open to freely
> send/receve data via the internet. However, sometimes a professor
conducting
> an exam in this lab would like everything blocked except the specific
> website used for the exam. In other words, during the exam students cannot
> access e-mail or visit any site except for the specific exam site.
>
> Our Unix guy (who hates vehemently hates Windows) has said it can't be
done
> with Windows firewall because it won't block both outbound and inbound
> traffic. So he has set up an elaborate and complicated firewall system
which
> involves a unix-based firewall hardware device, setting up local accounts
on
> the 40 lab boxes, and swapping switch cables back and forth each time an
> exam takes place.
>
> My question: Isn't there a simpler and easier way to do this using Windows
> firewall and/or group policy, or perhaps a third-party software tool?
>
> Thanks, it would be great to show our Unix guy that Windows CAN accomplish
> this task!
>
>

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