removing usb device without administrator rights?

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I think you can, but I'm not positive on where/how to set this.

But, if you can, you can mitigate it with user training. If they unplug the
drive when it isn't performing any activity (read/write), all should be
fine. Just make sure they know to look for the light on it, and if it's
flashing, don't remove the drive.

HTH

Ken


"Abertech" <abertech@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1102326783.386065.314280@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
>I want users to use USB pen drives but don't want these users to have
> administrator rights over the machine. I'm using Windows 2000/
> Novell.
>
> Plugging in the pen drives is no problem - they are recognised ok and
> the drive appears in Windows Explorer.
>
> The problem is that when trying to open the usb icon in the taskbar
> (the
> little green arrow icon), as you are supposed to in order to safely
> remove the device, windows displays a message saying
> "Restrictions - This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions
> in effect on this computer...". So users are unable to stop the
> device.
> How can get users to be able to disconect their pen drives properly?
>