Hello all, I have a question regarding USB access with Windows 2000 and/or
XP.

A newbie to this process, I've noticed people like a lot of detail, so here
goes:

I am trying to devise a way of controlling publicly accessible USB ports on
a standard system (think printing kiosk or similar "walk-up" device)

I want USB support, and I want my other USB ports to work normally. I'd
like to be able to designate a specific port with read only access to Mass
Storage Devices...

I only want to support the insertion of Mass Storage Devices, MSDs,
(regardless of the make, model or manufacturer)

I'd like to know when the device installation is complete and the drive
letter that has been added successfully.

I don't want to display any pop up messages associated with "found new
hardware" etc. when a new device is inserted.

Instead, I'd like to somehow get a notification so I can display a message
under application control to the user.

I want to disable all write operations to the device connected to the
special public access USB port (treat the mass storage device as read only),
and,

Suppress any error message due to premature removal of the MSD, and notify
the application in case of premature device extraction by user.

Provide an interface so the application can safely stop the device and
prompt the user to remove the device.

Is this doable? How? And my XP question is, what changes, if anything, in
XP?

Is this a Windows Administrative thing like with Group Policies, or
something that needs to be done programmatically?

Thanks so much in advance!!!

Frank

You can try DeviceLock www.protect-me.com/dl . I think, it will be useful
for you.


"Frank B" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hello all, I have a question regarding USB access with Windows 2000 and/or
> XP.
>
> A newbie to this process, I've noticed people like a lot of detail, so
> here goes:
>
> I am trying to devise a way of controlling publicly accessible USB ports
> on a standard system (think printing kiosk or similar "walk-up" device)
>
> I want USB support, and I want my other USB ports to work normally. I'd
> like to be able to designate a specific port with read only access to Mass
> Storage Devices...
>
> I only want to support the insertion of Mass Storage Devices, MSDs,
> (regardless of the make, model or manufacturer)
>
> I'd like to know when the device installation is complete and the drive
> letter that has been added successfully.
>
> I don't want to display any pop up messages associated with "found new
> hardware" etc. when a new device is inserted.
>
> Instead, I'd like to somehow get a notification so I can display a message
> under application control to the user.
>
> I want to disable all write operations to the device connected to the
> special public access USB port (treat the mass storage device as read
> only), and,
>
> Suppress any error message due to premature removal of the MSD, and notify
> the application in case of premature device extraction by user.
>
> Provide an interface so the application can safely stop the device and
> prompt the user to remove the device.
>
> Is this doable? How? And my XP question is, what changes, if anything,
> in XP?
>
> Is this a Windows Administrative thing like with Group Policies, or
> something that needs to be done programmatically?
>
> Thanks so much in advance!!!
>
> Frank
>
>