I have configured an internal website on my Windows 2003 Server that allows users within and outside the company to search for specific data regarding the company. What I want to accomplish is to set up a “dummy” or “terminal” in our office that turns on and only connects to this website and is denied the ability to do anything else other than look and search this website. I need the equipment to last a long time and I don’t want to have to worry about the components in the device. I was looking at the WYSE Thin Clients that run Windows CE 5.0 (WYSE S30). I believe I will have to setup some sort of group policy or deny the IP address of this device to only allow it to connect to a specified IP or website address. Can this be accomplished with a WYSE running Windows CE 5.0? Does anyone have any input or additional advice for what I’m trying to do?
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what you're suggesting is tricky. You can't push Windows Group Policy onto the Wyse thin clients. They don't have a registry that can be written to in the same way that Windows does.
They are low to no maintenance, but are intended to be used in conjunction with MS Terminal services or Citrix ICA.
what you might try, if you have a Windows environment, is setting up a PC, locked down with Windows Group Policy, where you specify, within the policy, your website as the home/start page in internet explorer on the PC, and block out access to all of the internet explorer tabs, also done through Group Policy.
If your users use a proxy server to get out to the internet... and you don't allow this proxy server to be entered in internet explorer, this should be enough to prevent them from accessing anything but your home/start page
They are low to no maintenance, but are intended to be used in conjunction with MS Terminal services or Citrix ICA.
what you might try, if you have a Windows environment, is setting up a PC, locked down with Windows Group Policy, where you specify, within the policy, your website as the home/start page in internet explorer on the PC, and block out access to all of the internet explorer tabs, also done through Group Policy.
If your users use a proxy server to get out to the internet... and you don't allow this proxy server to be entered in internet explorer, this should be enough to prevent them from accessing anything but your home/start page
pgaliardo
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If it has to be a thin client, you may have better luck with something that runs XP embedded, as it seems to more closely mimick a PC even though there is no hard drive. I know HP makes a few models that come with XP embedded. I believe they contain a registry, but I have never tried applying a group policy to them.
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