Blocking a Website

[Nerwin]

I have a Linksys befw11s4 vr.4 and I want to block a Website (www.myspace.com) so that no one can access it at all unless they had a password for it and i know there are programs but I have 4 computers on the router and I want to know if theres a way to block that site with out installing something on each computer?

any ideas?

[rendrag]

i'm not totally familiar with that particular router, but I'm pretty confident you can block websites based on URL. That is a flat out block... it doesn't care whether you're an admin or restricted user, it just blocks whatever you tell it. You cannot password protect the site, it's either blocked or unblocked.

2 options I can think of:

1. install blocking software on each PC. I'm not aware of any software packages that do this, but i'm sure they could be found.

2. Change up your network and setup a server to run active directory. You should be able to block sites based on the logon usernames or groups of users that logon to the server.

[cluberti]

I've actually still got a Linksys befsr4 router (the same as yours, without the wireless), and I upgraded it to the latest firmware - there are no screens that I can see that provide you this functionaility. You'll either have to replace that with a router that can block websites, set up a squid proxy (or similar) on another machine that will be able to block the requests, or use a hosts file on each machine. The only one that allows you the password bypass will be a proxy, however, so be aware that you'll probably be best served by replacing that 2001-era Linksys with an old machine running as your proxy.