Re: usb pen drives - sometimes install sometimes not

From: Skorpion (skorpion_at_newsgroups.cetro.nil)
Date: 10/08/04 

Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 08:16:35 -0500

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andy smart regaled us with the following:

> 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

Which OS are we talking about?

When you say "attempting to install drives on the workstations", are you
talking about the USB drive appears to add a drive letter which then
disappears when the device is removed?
Or are you talking about a different behaviour...???

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Skorpion [skorpion at suespammers dot org]
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