From: Ellen K. 

Unfortunately, that wouldn't work because the TJ employees use web-based
versions of our applications for performance reasons.  (And come the new
enterprise system, everyone will be web-based for a good chunk of their
work.)

On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 21:21:50 -0500, "Gary Britt"
 wrote in message
:

>Ah, I didn't know you had these kinds of special situations.  Makes it a lot
>more understandable.  Why don't you just delete the web browser from their
>computers 
>
>Gary
>
>"Ellen K." 
wrote in message
>news:home4118ph7sj4ghmmt74e97ei6t9tk2l4{at}4ax.com...
>> Why?   Do you imagine you would work as a telephone service
>> representative in our call center?   I assure you we are not going to
>> restrict access for our in-house counsel, who in fact is one of the
>> people pushing for this because it will cut down on fraud by preventing
>> the employees from taking customer information home by emailing it to
>> themselves using their hotmail or whatever.
>>
>> On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 19:36:06 -0500, "Gary Britt"

>> wrote in message :
>>
>> >I'd hate to work at your employers.
>> >
>> >Gary
>> >
>> >"Ellen K."
 wrote in message
>> >news:frie411ubovd2ghdv5f67hdqd2rdcd22vq{at}4ax.com...
>> >> Not my area of responsibility but I always like to help if I can:
>> >> We want to restrict the rank-and-file users to a few
allowed sites like
>> >> FedEx and UPS.  In our morning briefing the other day it was stated
>that
>> >> everyone would have to have fixed IP addresses to do this
(that part I
>> >> understand, since the restrictions are not to apply to
everyone) and we
>> >> would have to have a proxy server.
>> >>
>> >> I actually don't know what a proxy server even is, but
the IT director
>> >> said it's complicated.   So first of all, is it true that
we would need
>> >> a proxy server?   And secondly, if so, is it complicated?
>> >>
>> >> Alternatively, is there any other way to do it?  We want to leave
>people
>> >> like directors and IT with full internet access.   Most
boxes have no
>> >> external IP address and a dynamic internal one.  The only ones with
>> >> fixed internal ones are people who pcAW in to their
desktop, which for
>> >> all I know might only be me because when they set up an additional
>> >> desktop for me recently they left the internal address
dynamic and I
>> >> couldn't get to it.
>> >
>>
>

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