bigguy

Hello, my friend owns a hotel and he currently has internet acess avalibale to all rooms. But he wants a thing that if thety decide not to purchase internet acess that he can get on his computer and block internet acesss to that room unless they persons decides to purchase it and than he can just go back and allow the user to connect. I dont know if it would be easier to make a password thign where they purchase a password to log into the network or to just make it where he can turn off connections to ceratin rooms. Thank You and I hope to here from yall soon.

coldDeath

You need to state how they connect to the net.
Do they connect to a server using LAN?
Or do they all have their own internet connection?

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bigguy

Yes, srry he does have his own server it is running windowx XP Pro. If naything else please let me know

coldDeath

erm, i'm not that good with networks/servers and stuff, but he could name each internet gateway connection to that of the computer it works for, then disable a non paying persons access by right clicking the connection and pressing disable.

(it probably doesnt work liek that though )

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Infinite Recursion

several ways, the easiest would be to filter out the IP address.

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bigguy

Ok thank you for the ideas, but would i need to use winsock, and if so. Do i have to put remote host as 127.0.0.1? and what would i need to use as port? and do i need to creat su,thig with winsock so he can get each rooms IP address and than he can chnage the IP
and connect like that?

coldDeath

Local host is 127.0.0.1, that means teh actual computer that you are on.
Remote host is teh IP address of the server, i think.

You could use a RAT (but i think thats cheating ).
RAT = Remote Admin Tool, you could download one or make one yourself.

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Rory

Well IRs advice would work, except to prevent knowledgable people setting their connected laptops/pcs to known "allowed" ips, configure your gateway to proxy by mac address (if you use ethernet).

However the simplest would be to have a standard web proxy requiring username/password on the gateway. There are plenty of open source things that'd do that, in fact you could even have a dumb bsd box doing it. XP supports it, its called ICS or ISA.

Then again you can't beat unplugging the cable if you're really paranoid!