Setting up XP for "Public" use
- From: Palindr☻me <me9@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 10:03:59 +0100
Hi,
I have been asked to add a room containing 3 PCs to the LAN of a local charity. The PCs will be for visitors to use and give them internet access plus standard Office apps. Whilst I am happy on how to configure the LAN to allow this and no more - I have never set up XP for shared, public, use. We are only talking about maybe a dozen individuals a year.
My first thought was that they each get given a hard disk in a caddy, which then becomes "theirs" (although it remains in the centre). There is then no way that anything they do could affect any other user of the room. They could even keep their own stuff on the hard disk and it would be there for them, session after session. The caddy would have to be tied to a particularly machine as, inevitably, all three machines are very different makes and models. So there could be a clash if two people with MachineA disks turned up - even if machines B and C were free...
I have got management to agree that each visitor will have to be given and use a unique ID and password, so that some meaningful logging of what they do can be kept.
As an alternative, I was thinking of using Powerquest's Boot Manager, to set up multiple partitions on each drive - so that all partitions but theirs are hidden. But that would only support a very limited number of users.
But, would be possible to set up XP to similarly protect one user from the activities of the others?
I could add a 4th machine, say running NT server, to act as a domain controller, so that accounts would be valid on any machine.. I have a spare NT server licence and a suitable machine.
Any pointers, much appreciated.
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Sue
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