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| Thread ID: 136736 | 2014-04-08 21:57:00 | Block a PC connecting to the internet | Nick G (16709) | Press F1 |
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| 1372287 | 2014-04-08 21:57:00 | I've got an old box dual booting XP and Linux Mint. In short, I'd like it unable to access the internet while in XP, regardless of whether it is connected or not. (Got a few Windows only programs, but want to get rid of the antivirus because system resources are not plentiful). What would be a simple way of achieving this? |
Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1372288 | 2014-04-08 22:07:00 | Static IP in Windows and Linux (both of which are different), and then block XP's static IP in the router, perhaps? | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1372289 | 2014-04-08 23:02:00 | On the XP -- Go into the Network Adapter settings or right click the icon in the Tray and disable the connection :) This will of course disable any LAN connections as well. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1372290 | 2014-04-08 23:04:00 | Disable the network adapter? only if you don't need networking either of course. | dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1372291 | 2014-04-09 00:44:00 | Networking isn't needed, so disabling it does what I want. :thumbs: | Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1372292 | 2014-04-09 09:53:00 | To retain access to your network but stop access to the internet on XP, open Internet Explorer, go to Tools>Internet Options, then click on Connections then LAN Settings.... This will bring up a new dialog box. Make sure the top 2 check boxes ("Automatically detect settings" and "Use Automatic configuration script") are not checked. Check the “Use a proxy server …” box. Next, enter 127.0.0.1 into the Address box. Finally, check the “Bypass proxy server for local addresses” box. This will allow XP to connect to your network, but block internet access. Mint will still be able to connect normally. I have done just this with my computer with XP and Mint, and it is working perfectly. I still have 2 important programs that only run on XP and do not run using WINE on Mint. One of the programs won't run on anything later than XP, so upgrading to a more recent version of Windows was out of the question (unless I spent $500 for an upgrade). |
Wilko (17174) | ||
| 1372293 | 2014-04-09 23:05:00 | IE? :P Nope, don't use that. Don't use any networking, so disabling the adaptor works well. | Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1372294 | 2014-04-10 00:50:00 | Even if you do not use IE, it is there and accessible as part of XP, so you can access internet options if you want to. If you have a wireless printer for example, maintaining local network capability while stopping internet access is easy. | Wilko (17174) | ||
| 1372295 | 2014-04-10 01:06:00 | Easiest way if it still needed LAN access (Which it doesn't in this case) in a simple home network is to give it a static IP and no gateway address. | Alex B (15479) | ||
| 1372296 | 2014-04-10 02:08:00 | Yeah I was just about to suggest what Alex B did. All the others are overkill, and prevent any local networking if you ever wanted it, or are easy to have certain programs (Say a virus even) ignore. Set an invalid gateway, set the gateway to its own IP, or don't set a gateway. Problem is solved, and you can still do local PC <-> PC networking (Say for filesharing) without allowing internet access. |
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