SteadyState Admins?

[riscbroker]

Any SteadyState boffs on the forum? I'd like to use MS SteadyState to lock down a bunch of shared machines but am having trouble restricting access to websites - seems this function doesn't work if accessing the web thru a proxy server. I'm testing with Vodacom as an ISP.

 

[ramar]

I am not a steady state boffin but as far as i remember reading somewhere Steadystate is not designed to work in a proxy environment.
If you have a proxy server, why not use that to restrict websites?

 

[riscbroker]

I am not a steady state boffin but as far as i remember reading somewhere Steadystate is not designed to work in a proxy environment.
If you have a proxy server, why not use that to restrict websites?

Yes, you're right about SteadyState not being able to limit sites via a proxy, I also came across that info on a support forum.

I don't have a proxy server but I am still unable to impose limits on sites accessed. Does this mean that SteadyState is seeing Vodacom (my ISP) as a proxy environment? Sorry if this doesn't make much sense but I'm a little puzzled.

 

[Random717]

I'm guessing here, but I think SS only sees the computer as accessing the Vodacom IP, so no restrictions apply as all traffic flows through there. If you can, set up a local proxy server (squid) with ACLs that let you do what you want... caching will also help save bandwidth and improve speeds.