RE: Catalog only stations

["Riesner, Giles" <GRIESNER@xxxxxxxxxx>]

We have a single "Catalog Only" PC on each of our floors except the main floor
where the Catalog Cluster is beside the Reference Desk. These four PCs are all
located in the same general area on each floor.

These PCs truly get to the Catalog and pages on the Library system server *ONLY*.
They do not get to any pages that link to them or to any databases -- not even to
the College's home page. They are really restricted.

We did this by just going into the proxy settings and setting up a message in the
address block along the lines of "This site is unavailable from this PC. Use the
Lab instead" and leaving the port block empty. We fill in the exceptions box with
JUST the address for the library server.

Then in IE we restrict access to Internet Options; in Netscape, we used to
restrict the Preferences file.

Netscape used to actually display the message along the status bar. We use IE
exclusively now and it pops up an error message box saying "Internet Explorer
could not open the search page" with an OK on it; when you click the "OK", you
get the standard 404 page, which we have made no attempt to re-write. 

Giles W. Riesner Jr., Library Tech Support
Community College of Balto. Co. - Catonsville
800 S. Rolling Rd., Bal timore MD 21228  USA
Tel/V-Mail 1-410-455-4245
Email:       griesner@xxxxxxxxxx


-----Original Message-----
From: innopac-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:innopac-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Mark Bayles
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 8:56 AM
To: IUG INNOPAC List
Subject: Catalog only stations


We are getting ready to replace our dumb terminals with pc's and upgrade
our catalog. What techniques are people using to limit usage of these
pc's to catalog and limit web access to only those sites referenced from
the catalog? Thanks, Mark Bayles

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