Re: usb pen drives - sometimes install sometimes not

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

Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 14:26:54 +0100

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Skorpion wrote:
| 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...???
|
Duh!
OS is winXP pro with SP2
Yes, I mean the type which appears as a drive letter when inserted then
disappears when removed. As far as I tell the drivers are hard-coded
into the pen drive and XP is attempting to automatically install it.
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