lsheldon Posted February 23, 2009 Posted February 23, 2009 We have a file server that has server 2003 standard edition, one of our old servers. We cannot upgrade as yet but when we do it will be to SAN. I know server2003 ent r2 can screen files, but we do not and will not have that availability on a SAN I need a way to automatically delete .exe files, so students cannot store games and other software I either need it to stop them saving them or a way of automatically search and delete once a day. Whatever it is i will need to do this through UNC paths.
FN-GM Posted February 23, 2009 Posted February 23, 2009 You could block them using group policy. It won't delete them but will stop them from running them.
mac_shinobi Posted February 23, 2009 Posted February 23, 2009 http://www.edugeek.net/forums/scripts/346-administrators-nasty-file-search-v2-0-released.html admins nasty file search V 2
CyberNerd Posted February 23, 2009 Posted February 23, 2009 When we upgraded to SAN we also upgraded our windows file server to Linux/Samba. with Samba it is easy to veto certain files types from being saved.
mac_shinobi Posted February 23, 2009 Posted February 23, 2009 not sure what OS you are going to have on it when its a SAN but maybe some sort of script you can run to check through all UNC paths to find all exe file types and delete them ?
lsheldon Posted February 24, 2009 Author Posted February 24, 2009 Cannot download nasty file search from the link you gave me it just goes to my little helpdesk
lsheldon Posted February 24, 2009 Author Posted February 24, 2009 I would rather do this through a program or script if possible as we don't know what sun microsystems / AMEY have in mind for BSF future wise
mac_shinobi Posted February 24, 2009 Posted February 24, 2009 ANFS - got a reply from ICTNUT ( pretty sure thats the person on here who does ANFS etc ) and basically got told that they will be posting it on edugeek sometime this week as opensource software for edugeek. So watch this space so to speak. 1
p858snake Posted February 24, 2009 Posted February 24, 2009 Perhaps a batchfile that runs when the student logs in?
lsheldon Posted February 24, 2009 Author Posted February 24, 2009 Only problem with that is the students would just close it
RabbieBurns Posted February 24, 2009 Posted February 24, 2009 Only problem with that is the students would just close it you can make logon scripts run hidden in GPO
lsheldon Posted February 24, 2009 Author Posted February 24, 2009 Yep the only problem is it will take system resorces at the workstation, I would rather run it server side
amfony Posted February 24, 2009 Posted February 24, 2009 what about a simple scheduled task that runs every 10 mins that simply does: cd vol:\studentFiles del *.exe /s maybe make sure indexing is enabled to get better performance on folder trawling. other then that the tools4ever guys used to sell a quota system that also did file screening. might be much for a temp solution tho. hth 1
plexer Posted February 24, 2009 Posted February 24, 2009 If you are moving to a san for storage how do you envisage it working? Surely you make the file system resources available to your servers to store the users data on and thus they are treated as if they are local drives which means R2 file screening will work? Ben
lsheldon Posted February 24, 2009 Author Posted February 24, 2009 We will be using an independent san apx 3/4 TB as advised by sun microsystems the san will be OS independent.
plexer Posted February 24, 2009 Posted February 24, 2009 But you've still got to present the datastore to the servers in order for them to utilise it? Ben
lsheldon Posted February 24, 2009 Author Posted February 24, 2009 The independent san see Sun StorageTek 5320 NAS Appliance
ICTNUT Posted February 24, 2009 Posted February 24, 2009 Hi, ANFS and some other software that we have produced is being made available via the EduGeek projects section as open source and free. I am in the process of packing these up and I will be passing them over to Bizzle who will be managing these projects from then on. Hopefully the transfer will complete this week.
mrforgetful Posted February 24, 2009 Posted February 24, 2009 Is ANFS any different to that EduSweep?
plexer Posted February 24, 2009 Posted February 24, 2009 I hope you're not buying the san from that link as it's end of life. If you use iscsi then you can connect your servers to it and they will see it as a local disk therefore R2 file screening will still work. Ben
lsheldon Posted February 24, 2009 Author Posted February 24, 2009 We can only use what sun give us as part of BSF and there recomended setup we have had this unit for a while now, we currently only run the admin shares and home areas on this but will eventually integrate the students home areas here.
CyberNerd Posted February 24, 2009 Posted February 24, 2009 We can only use what sun give us as part of BSF and there recomended setup we have had this unit for a while now, we currently only run the admin shares and home areas on this but will eventually integrate the students home areas here. It'll probably be solaris based, so you could just use samba and veto the files. Failing that maybe you could use the find command
lsheldon Posted February 24, 2009 Author Posted February 24, 2009 i am currently using this command, that i overlooked for some reason cd vol:\studentFiles del *.exe /s /f the problem is it does not remove hidden or archived or zipped .exe files but it does remove read only which is good any ideas ?
amfony Posted February 24, 2009 Posted February 24, 2009 (edited) well i would pre fix that script with an: attrib * -H -R -A /S Which will remove all read-only and hidden flags on files making them accessible to delete. I would also remove ALL archive files from the student home drives as that pretty much means 'hide executable'. so you should be in business with cd vol:\studentFiles attrib * -H -R -A /S del *.exe /s /f del *.zip /s /f Edited February 24, 2009 by amfony sorry you said archive files aswell - editted the attrib line
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