Adam Leach wrote:
I am looking into taking a job at a UK Secondary school. Currently the system is fully Windows Based, with a mixture of windows 95/98/NT/2000 clients and NT & 2000 servers.
The main problem they have is security and ensuring that only suitable applications can be accesssed i.e. the internet is not always available.
Now I've looked at Squid and it seems to provide useful controlling roles, however are there anyother proxies that offer better or similar authentication rules.
I suspect that what you are looking for is squidguard, which comes on the SuSE disks. It needs some configuration to make it work and is not yet as easy to set up as you'd like. Essentially, it uses a feature of squid that allows squid to ask another program to check requests and deny them if they're unsuitable. Squidguard is the other program and uses blacklists that you can control. Squidguard can also be configured to make the web inaccessible at different times of day. -- JDL