Limit external HDD use

[alex]

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Hi Friends, I have a quick question, I have an External
USB drive on my work desktop machine, but this machine is
used by some coworkers, some times I take home the USB
drive also. What I want to do is to not allow the access
to external USB drives in My work machine, only allow the
access to the administrators accounts, I dont want to use
the NTFS security because as I mentioned before, I also
use the drive in home.
Thanks
Alex

 

[bar]

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Click on properties for the drive and go to the Sharing Tab. Make sure it is not shared.

"Alex" wrote:

> Hi Friends, I have a quick question, I have an External
> USB drive on my work desktop machine, but this machine is
> used by some coworkers, some times I take home the USB
> drive also. What I want to do is to not allow the access
> to external USB drives in My work machine, only allow the
> access to the administrators accounts, I dont want to use
> the NTFS security because as I mentioned before, I also
> use the drive in home.
> Thanks
> Alex
>

 

[Guest]

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I think that I didn't explain very well, what I really
what is that just the Administrator can "connect" the USB
drive to the local machine, the other users can connect it
locally and see the information, this is what I want to
avoid.
Thanks
Alex

>-----Original Message-----
>Click on properties for the drive and go to the Sharing
Tab. Make sure it is not shared.
>
>"Alex" wrote:
>
>> Hi Friends, I have a quick question, I have an External
>> USB drive on my work desktop machine, but this machine
is
>> used by some coworkers, some times I take home the USB
>> drive also. What I want to do is to not allow the
access
>> to external USB drives in My work machine, only allow
the
>> access to the administrators accounts, I dont want to
use
>> the NTFS security because as I mentioned before, I also
>> use the drive in home.
>> Thanks
>> Alex
>>
>.
>

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware (More info?)

You can use NTFS and add both User SID's to the drive. You are going to
have to play with permissions otherwise I can't think of anything that
can do this. I'm not even sure if you could fully do this with NTFS.

Sounds like the only way you can do this is password protect the drive
and require "authentication" upon connecting the drive to a computer.
This would mean only the administrator can authenticate the drive and
after that point, it should be accessible. I'm not entirely sure how
you would go about doing this though.

----
Nathan McNulty


apatino@hotmail.com wrote:
> I think that I didn't explain very well, what I really
> what is that just the Administrator can "connect" the USB
> drive to the local machine, the other users can connect it
> locally and see the information, this is what I want to
> avoid.
> Thanks
> Alex
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>Click on properties for the drive and go to the Sharing
>
> Tab. Make sure it is not shared.
>
>>"Alex" wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hi Friends, I have a quick question, I have an External
>>>USB drive on my work desktop machine, but this machine
>
> is
>
>>>used by some coworkers, some times I take home the USB
>>>drive also. What I want to do is to not allow the
>
> access
>
>>>to external USB drives in My work machine, only allow
>
> the
>
>>>access to the administrators accounts, I dont want to
>
> use
>
>>>the NTFS security because as I mentioned before, I also
>>>use the drive in home.
>>>Thanks
>>>Alex
>>>
>>
>>.
>>