[ThisGuy]

Can any of you give any advantages to using Mac Manager over Foolproof. It would be for a school running about 400 Macs. 85% iMac, 5% iBook, 5% G3 all-in-one, 5% PC. All currently on OS 9. Plans to move to OS X in the next year. Any input is appreciated. Thanks.

[deharlow]

Well FoolProof says that it is cross platform versus Macintosh Manager is Mac only, so this might be useful for those PCs that you manage.

Daniel

[SV Mac Maven]

That's true, FoolProof is cross-platform but you have to buy licenses for the Wintel boxes as well as the Macs. I have a very similar situation at my high school and the guys running the labs with the windows boxes gave up on FoolProof --they found kids hacking in and around too easily. The FoolProof tech support didn't believe me. I don't know but that's what the lab teachers said and they quit using it; so wasted money on license.

[ 04-22-2002: Message edited by: SV Mac Maven ]

[dtriska]

Originally posted by SV Mac Maven:
<STRONG>I have a very similar situation at my high school and the guys running the labs with the windows boxes gave up on FoolProof --they found kids hacking in and around too easily.</STRONG>

This has been true in my experience as well. Foolproof is absolutely useless on a Windows box. The only remotely secure solution I've found is using DeepFreeze in conjunction with Group Policies.

[bdolge]

I would advise against Foolproof. (Despite the fact we currently use it) for a couple reasons: (1) It provides only modest security (I spend lots of time resetting hacked stuff) and (2) The product is circling the drain, currently in maintainence(no major improvements in the works) and there is no existing or planned OS X version. That said we are still using it because Mac Manager was a nightmare to configure and run (lots of programs not starting machines locking up special configurations for scanners, web browsers, cd burners, etc. We are currently looking at On Guard from PowerOn software.

[dtriska]

LOL…nice sig, ThisGuy.