Internet Connection Sharing...blocking internet radios

[TheCorm]

When running a shared internet connection on a Windows 2000 workgroup....is there any way to block the use of Internet Radios on other PC's...you know the type....that have like a little Internet Explorer window with Media player plugin.

Corm

 

[mboy]

That may be tough as I believe media player uses 1755 UDP and TCP but also dynaimc UDP ports as well ( I think).

 

[TheCorm]

Damn.....damn those employees and their internet radios using up bandwith....have one client who would rather just block this employees access for internet radios through the dialup rather than moan at them!

On a second note.....is internet connection sharing possibly with windows 98?...do you neet to install additional components or get hold of seperate software?

Corm

 

[lobadobadingdong]

if they are on windows 2000 can't you just deny them access to that or those programs as you find them. though their login credentials? I used to do that on an nt4.0 domain on Win98boxes all the time. eventually the users give up and stop trying.

 

[vi edit]

Do you have any sort of budget to work with? $300-$500 could probably get you an entry level firewall that will let you

a) use hardware to share out the internet connection instead of ICS
b) secure your network
c) allow you to set up rules/user rights that could block certain port access preventing them from using certain apps/web functions

Also - a proxy server would probably provide you the ability to block this out as well as other various filtering methods you may choose to implement. I'm not familiar with the proxy solutions out there, but I'm sure there are some budget oriented ones that somebody on this forum could recommend.

 

[spidey07]

The hard part is that windows media can also run over HTTP port 80 and it is almost impossible to block.

This is where company policy comes in and the wrath of spidey, errrr, god I mean smites the bandwidth hog.