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I will be deffientely looking into it. Thank you for pointing it out.

--Scott

Public Web Browser was originally designed to secure an OPAC through a Windows Terminal server via WYSE Winterms. Originally released as a freeware product, PWB has grown into a powerful and innovative tool for securing a wide range of public access computers and terminals.

PWB has been developed ...

Don't stop with PWB.

Because Public Web Browser was build using Microsoft Visual Studio and incorporates the Internet Explorer HTML rendering engine, PWB can take advantage of the Windows registry and policy settings that control how Internet Explorer functions. Thus the registry editor and policy ...

You are absolutely right, I will add it to our to-do list. Thanks for the sugestion.

--Scott

You can make the changes to the local Group Policy from a remote computer.

Follow the same basic instructions, but when you get to the "Group Policy Object" click browse and select "Another Computer", type in the computer name and you can make the Group Policy changes to the remote computer.

Unfortunately PWB uses the Internet Explorer HTML rendering engine and this includes the printing and saving dialogs. Fortunately PWB uses the IE HTML rendering engine so most of the Windows Policies will effect PWB.

Here are the directions to restrict the IE save as dialog using PWB and MMC.

In ...

Full paths should be used in the INI [Files] section.

Default:
PolicyFile=.\Policy.txt

Should be used:
PolicyFile=C:\Your Path\Public Web Browser v2\Policy.txt

The default is to use the relative path, but a better practice is to tell PWB the locations of the file. When using the relative path ...

Are you using any other type of restrictrictions such as NT policies?

Send a copy of your INI file to Support@TeamSoftwareSolutions.com.

--Scott

It sounds like a permissions problem. Make sure the limited users has access to the IP.txt file.

--Scott

When viewing OLE/ActiveX type objects (Word, Excel, etc...) PWB displays through the IE engine a warning if you want to open or save it and there is a check box on the dialog to always ask. Uncheck the check box and click the open button. From then on that type of document will open in PWB and not ...

So far I am pretty impressed with phpBB. I wish I would have found it 2 years ago.

My web host admitted they had a problem on Tuesday, and assures me it is a rare occurance.

--Scott

Figures, I just changed to a PHP forum because my hosts ASP server seemed a little flakey. Now today the CGI server has problems.

I just emailed a "nice" letter to them about it, hopefully it is now fixed.

--Scott

Welcome to the new TeamSoftware Solutions forum. We hope this forum will be more stable and easier to use.

--Scott