Re: Restricting access to a CD-WR drive on a Win2K Server

From: Greene Paul (greene_paul@bah.com)
Date: 09/19/02 

Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:01:51 -0400
From: "Greene Paul" <greene_paul@bah.com>
To: Kurt Seifried <bugtraq@seifried.org>

Thanks. That looks like just the trick.

(Thanks also to everyone else that offered suggestions.)

Paul

Kurt Seifried wrote:

>>I have a client requesting an ability to restrict access to a CD-WR
>>drive on a Windows 2000 Server. It is a CD-WR drive shared over an
>>enterprise network; in other words the ones accessing the drive are not
>>at a local console.
>>
>>They would like to be able to grant read/write access to the CD-WR drive
>>for a certain group of users, and only read access to another group of
>>users. Is there any registry settings that can configure this? Or, if
>>not, can anyone suggest a utility that has such functionality?
>>
>>(They were hoping Windows has some built in functionality that can do
>>this; I suspect, though, that it would take a 3rd party utility to
>>achieve this.)
>>
>>Paul Greene
>>
>>
>
>securent from securewave lets you restrict access to removable media
>(floppies, cd, etc), and various ports (parallel, serial, usb, etc). AFAIK
>it's the only product that does this for windows.
>
>http://www.securewave.com
>
>Not sure how fine grained you can do controls (i.e. read vs.s. read/write),
>may need to add a secon read only drive.
>
>Kurt Seifried, kurt@seifried.org
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>http://seifried.org/security/
>
>

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