usb pen drives - sometimes install sometimes not

From: andy smart (anonymus_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/08/04 

Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 10:32:00 +0100

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Hi

We would like our users to use their usb pen drives on our system as it
would be the best way for them to move large files between school and
home. We can use software restriction policies to stop them running
programs so we're happy for the students to plug them in.

However some pen drives will not work without attempting to install
drives on the workstations, as we have domain users in local power users
~ rather than local administrators this will not work. It seems to be the
ones that install as 'usb hubs' rather than 'mass storage' whicm present
the problem

Does anybody know a way to get round this, we wouldn't (ideally) want
them installing any local hardware but we do want pen drives.

tia
andy
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