Comments on: How to stop a computer on my home LAN from accessing internet but allow access to other computers on LAN? http://www.howto.com.my/2009/answer-this-if-you-can/how-to-stop-a-computer-on-my-home-lan-from-accessing-internet-but-allow-access-to-other-computers-on-lan/ Your How To Solution For Just About Everything Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:43:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: GJneedsanswershttp://www.howto.com.my/2009/answer-this-if-you-can/how-to-stop-a-computer-on-my-home-lan-from-accessing-internet-but-allow-access-to-other-computers-on-lan/comment-page-1/#comment-18836 GJneedsanswers Sat, 04 Jul 2009 08:31:35 +0000 http://www.howto.com.my/2009/answer-this-if-you-can/how-to-stop-a-computer-on-my-home-lan-from-accessing-internet-but-allow-access-to-other-computers-on-lan/#comment-18836 As previous answers have mentioned, you could configure a firewall rule in your router to block that computer from getting to the Internet. If your router doesn't have that functionality, you could configure that computer with bogus / fictitious DNS addresses. Of course, I would suggest using private IP addresses for this. You could log in the computer as administrator to make those changes, and then the person could have a plain user account, and even if they knew what was going on, they couldn't make changes since it's just a user account. That computer would still be able to see the Windows network, because Windows uses netBIOS for that. As previous answers have mentioned, you could configure a firewall rule in your router to block that computer from getting to the Internet.

If your router doesn’t have that functionality, you could configure that computer with bogus / fictitious DNS addresses. Of course, I would suggest using private IP addresses for this. You could log in the computer as administrator to make those changes, and then the person could have a plain user account, and even if they knew what was going on, they couldn’t make changes since it’s just a user account. That computer would still be able to see the Windows network, because Windows uses netBIOS for that.

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