Christopher Fisk wrote:
On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, Wayne Johnson wrote:
At 12:24 AM 1/28/2009, maccrawj typed:
Ok, so how would you control access to 5 PCs & numerous resources in
a way where if one child is bad you can lock 'em out or simply limit
his access to the games, media or key application folders across
multiple machines? Never mind being in control of house-wide
time/location login restrictions and after hours forced logout.
Most routers will do this now no matter what OS you're running.
Router's can't control if someone plays a single player game.
Agreed, dunno where Wayne was going with that other than maybe he meant blocking SMB
share access by firewall rule per PC which is not what I meant at all.
If you don't have kids (or roomates) you can quickly dismiss the idea
but I think soon it will be the norm in households as it is now in
business.
In general I agree.
Price is too high to get into households as the norm, but it's
definately a nice feature if you can afford it.
Agreed also, morons still buy "Home" & "Basic" editions of windows that lock them out
of basic security features like file ACLS so it's a high target. I imagine there is a
free linux server replacement for AD/LDAP that could replace the Windows server
portion, would run on next to nothing hardware wise, and still allow XP/Vista/?
windows clients to work as if attacked to Windows domain.
Servers in houses is long overdue and but soon happen given the amount of in-home
digital data & services being put to use. It will be your $100K, multi-ipod, pc for
each family member households but they're always the 1st given disposable income &
interest.
Christopher Fisk
