Comments on: Is There Such A Thing As Effective Parental Controls? http://phoneboy.com/1833/is-there-such-a-thing-as-effective-parental-controls Simplifying Network Security, Telecom, Gadgets, and More! Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:36:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: PhoneBoy http://phoneboy.com/1833/is-there-such-a-thing-as-effective-parental-controls/comment-page-1#comment-22835 PhoneBoy Fri, 19 Oct 2007 03:17:27 +0000 http://www.phoneboy.com/node/1833#comment-22835 Active Directory is overhead I don't want. I solve the printing problem by not configuring the accounts to print. Until they start using the computers for actual school work, I have no intention of configuring the printers for them. Active Directory is overhead I don’t want. I solve the printing problem by not configuring the accounts to print. Until they start using the computers for actual school work, I have no intention of configuring the printers for them.

]]> By: Eric Hanke http://phoneboy.com/1833/is-there-such-a-thing-as-effective-parental-controls/comment-page-1#comment-22834 Eric Hanke Fri, 19 Oct 2007 03:08:54 +0000 http://www.phoneboy.com/node/1833#comment-22834 First and foremost, there is no substitute for parental involvement if you are going to let your children use a computer connected to the Internet. I often find myself playing the same games, like Lego's, on my own PC. As an IT guy myself with 4 young children all under the age of 10 I use Microsoft Active Directory and Group Policies to only allow my children the following: • 30 minutes of computer "log in" time per day. Once minute 30 hits, they are logged out. • They only have access to "trusted" Internet sites listed in Group Policy. • Limited Windows XP accounts. Each child has their own Active Directory login, the same as the one they use at school for consistency. The one thing I don’t limit, but would like too, is their ability to print to both the color and black & white laser. I don’t view this as a “security risk” so it’s on the bottom of the to-do list. First and foremost, there is no substitute for parental involvement if you are going to let your children use a computer connected to the Internet. I often find myself playing the same games, like Lego’s, on my own PC.

As an IT guy myself with 4 young children all under the age of 10 I use Microsoft Active Directory and Group Policies to only allow my children the following:

• 30 minutes of computer “log in” time per day. Once minute 30 hits, they are logged out.
• They only have access to “trusted” Internet sites listed in Group Policy.
• Limited Windows XP accounts. Each child has their own Active Directory login, the same as the one they use at school for consistency.

The one thing I don’t limit, but would like too, is their ability to print to both the color and black & white laser. I don’t view this as a “security risk” so it’s on the bottom of the to-do list.

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