Shared Computer Toolkit functions ?

[Guest]

Hi all,
I am a PC novice who is trying to set up a
Point-of-Sale system (using SQL) for my
retails shop on Win XP pro Dell PC.
This PC is connected via internet for
remote sync of the sales data to my PC.

I understands that the Shared computer toolkit
allows me to control and protect the sales and
customer data. However I need to counter check with
you guys on the following to be sure that I am on the right
track, that the toolskit can fullfill all these

1. Upon Power up of PC, my regular staff will log in via passwords
to a specfic user.
2. After logged in, the staff will not be able to use the
internet explorer,
chat,
printing function,
window explorer to browse other parts the PC,
copymove/delete/save any files to external USB/hard/cd disk
no START bar (if possible) only logged off and shut down.

Basically the only thing that they can do is to click on the
on icon which will activated the POS program for working.

3. If my store manager log in via another user, he will be able to do
do certain functions e.g. printing , internet etc but not win
explorer....

Can one see any problem on my above needs by using Shared
Computer Toolkit ? Kindly advise . Thanks in advance.

 

[Steven L Umbach]

You probably also want to post in the newsgroup dedicated for Shared
Computer Toolkit called Microsoft.public.windows.sharedaccess. It is not as
easy as one thinks to prevent a users access to the internet as users often
can open an URL in a Word document or such. The same can be said for
external drives. XP SP2 can be configured to disable write to USB drives.
Though Shared Computer Toolkit can do a lot I would feel more comfortable
using a third party solution such as PortsLock and DeviceLock to manage
access to the internet and external drives if it is important to do such.
The links below explain more.

Steve

http://www.portslock.com/
http://www.devicelock.com/
http://www.petri.co.il/disable_writing_to_usb_disks_in_xp_sp2.htm