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  1. January 24th, 2001, 08:33 AM #1
    Lar Lar
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    disable the a: drive.

    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.
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  2. January 24th, 2001, 12:34 PM #2
    Etienne
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    Have you tried the policy editor?
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  3. January 24th, 2001, 07:53 PM #3
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    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.
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  4. January 25th, 2001, 07:42 AM #4
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    Devicelock is a great utility that we use (not for a: drive, but I believe that you can).
    Try http://www.protect-me.com
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  6. January 25th, 2001, 02:32 PM #5
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    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.
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