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 15:36:02 +0100

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Skorpion wrote:
| andy smart regaled us with the following:
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|>>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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| Well, actually, it's XP that's handling that...
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| It's like an auto-mount so the pen drive is readily accessible to the user
| (more M$ automatic stuff for ease of use... comments reserved...)
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| AFAIK, shouldn't be a problem for you...
| The device disappears when removed...
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| Is there something of concern to you that I'm missing here?
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Yes, some types of pen drives will not install on the workstation unless
the user is an administrator on the local workstation. They are all
power users (we have eh-hem 'legacy' software) but this does not give
them the rights. We WANT them to be able to use their pen drives, but
don't want to make them local machine admins
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