I have been asked to summarise for the list the responses I received from my enquiry about how to allow 'anonymous' access to an NT network for the purpose of browsing a Web OPAC.
I will try and summarise but I should point out that some of the suggestions were quite technical and I apologise in advance if I have misinterpreted anyone's response. (I've passed them on to our IT staff to see if they generate any inspirational solutions for our own circumstances).
A number of people use generic log ins and then control web access by means of 'KIOSK' on Netscape or IE Administartion Kit for Internet Explorer. These are software controls that can be applied to the browsers to restrict what functionality users have and which pages they can view.
One person specifically mentioned IKIOSK and gave a web address (http://www.winselect.com/index.html)
There is apparently a cost involved here.
A further suggestion involved 'thin clients' and again 3 web sites and e-mail contacts were given
http://www.precedence.co.uk/ [log in to unmask]
http://www.microlynx.co.uk [log in to unmask]
http://www.cumana.demon.co.uk/ [log in to unmask]
Another software suggestion was Netsitter
http://wwwudel.edu/ud/netsitter
A general point made by a number of people was that the NT environment is probably able to be set up to do exactly what we want providing the people in charge of managing the network can be 'persuaded' to do the necessary work!
Hope this helps others in a similar position and again apologies if I've misrepresented anyone who replied to me directly.
David Singleton
University of Central Lancashire
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