Limiting website Access with IE

[moestroz]

Here at work, I have been asked to give a group of "trainees" access to a pc and internet access so they can proceed with a on-line training curriculm. I am trying to figure out if there is a way that I can limit Internet Explorer to go to the training site and the training site only. I know one can restrict sites that you don't want people to access, but this is the opposite.

Even if I was able to limit the one pc designated to be used by the trainees, I do not want them to try using their training internet password on other pcs that would give them free reign of the internet. Is there a way to set this up on our pix firewall or through a group policy?
Additionally, most trainees work second shift where there is less people around than day shift and I am sure the temptation to "surf" will exist.

TIA,
Maureen

 

[electronicsfreak]

Go to tools the internet options, the click content , on the first box there click enable, I think thats what your looking for.

 

[smah]

The Search function reveals:

Restrict browser access thread608-934747
Internet Explorer Question thread608-955357
restrict website access thread608-471180
Restrict Internet access on stand-alone PC thread608-370622
Block all sites, except one? thread608-191514

Steve

 

[moestroz]

Thank you both for your quick response!
I have looked over and have tested the suggestions. I ended up with the "dummy" name in the LAN options and allowed only access to the one site. That worked great for the one pc.

The trainees first have to get by the pix challenge, so I have set them up with a user logon to do that. Then the browser defaults to the one site they can look at and the new settings in LAN options limit them only to the one site. Awesome!

But..... they can still go up to any other pc and use their training logon to get past the pix challenge and then the other pcs would be wide open. I was hoping to control it based on the user id or a group. Any other suggestions?

TIA

 

[gecko27]

It looks like you can set this up using a group policy. It's under

Group policy - user configuration - windows settings - internet explorer maintenance - connection - proxy settings