Re: external drive access

From: Aleda (Aleda_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 05/12/05 

Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 05:53:04 -0700

I have no special permissions, just a usual XP setup with mapped drives,
ofcourse when the external drive is plugged in, I cannot format it, I get a
permissions error? I suppose XP thinks it is a network drive?

"Gordon" wrote:

> Aleda wrote:
> || The only way I can have my users use an external drive is to give
> || them administrative rights on my domain, which is not good. Does
> || anyone have any suggestions for me to eliminate admin rights to my
> || users?
>
> Although I'm not on a domain, my limited user can access the same External
> Firewire HDD as the admin account. Have you set some strange permissions
> perhaps?
>
> --
> Gordon Burgess-Parker
> Interim Systems and Management Accounting
> www.gbpcomputing.co.uk
>
>
>

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