Re: [ilugd] Disabling Access to Windows OS computer on Ubuntu (linux) Network

2006-03-20 Thread Akshay Lamba
We have one machine that is a Win 98 (or any other win system - it is connected to the network. I wanted to know if there was a way of disabling network access to this machine. ??? or simply preventing access to some served services !! (right term) like internet. Probably multiple way's of

Re: [ilugd] Disabling Access to Windows OS computer on Ubuntu (linux) Network

2006-03-20 Thread Kishore Bhargava
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi We have a simple network that is served by a Ubuntu 5.04 based machine. This machine basically acts as a DHCP server. We have one machine that is a Win 98 (or any other win system - it is connected to the network. I wanted to know if there was a way of

Re: [ilugd] Disabling Access to Windows OS computer on Ubuntu (linux) Network

2006-03-20 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kishore Bhargava wrote: Ram, One very lame way of doing this is to not assign a default gateway for the machine. I have seen many Win Admins do this, but like I said its extremely lame. Using iptables of a proxy would be a better way. But if its only this one machine, then just remove

Re: [ilugd] Disabling Access to Windows OS computer on Ubuntu (linux) Network

2006-03-20 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Akshay Lamba wrote: Probably multiple way's of doing this, here's some off the cuff: 1. Provide it with an IP tied up with it's MAC (or a static IP) and then create a iptables (firewall) rule to drop all packets from that IP. 2. Use squid and squidguard to allow/disallow internet access.

Re: [ilugd] Disabling Access to Windows OS computer on Ubuntu (linux) Network

2006-03-20 Thread Kishore Bhargava
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: one more thing, a. when I ping the network 192.168.0.255 -b it does not show the windows machine , i have to physically go over and get the ip which it self is okay but seems dangerous since I don't know which machines are logged in ? ?? unlike for all the other