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Lar Lar
January 24th, 2001, 07:33 AM
Help my management have asked me to disable all the A: on 200 workstations.
Does anyone know how to do it easy. I don't want to manually disble the drive as management will want to access any pc and be able to use the a:. I found floplocker but am having problems please help.
Etienne
January 24th, 2001, 11:34 AM
Have you tried the policy editor?
patweb
January 24th, 2001, 06:53 PM
A hardware solution for about ~$4 per computer. Put a physical lock on it. Managing the keys might present a problem unless you can have them all keyed the same.
I haven't used policy editor for this, but know you can do it that way too.
philv
January 25th, 2001, 06:42 AM
Devicelock is a great utility that we use (not for a: drive, but I believe that you can).
Try http://www.protect-me.com
JackLothian
January 25th, 2001, 01:32 PM
The best way to do it is in the bios & apply a password for further changes to the bios. Policies can always be circumvented in my experience. In a school, library, etc this is a must. Of course, this implies you visit all 200 machines. You might also consider pulling out or unplugging CD-ROMs. In my experience, they are a far greater problem than a floppy.
There might be some utlities around somewhere that you can set up so they autorun - sorry don't know of any.