Can I disable CD Burning in Win2k?

[Guest]

I have a Windows 2000 Active Directory environment and I wish to stop certain users from writing cds, but I want to let them read cds. If I use group policy, and set the "Hide these specified drives in my computer" policy I can only disable A,B,C,D drives but some of the burners are on E: as D: is a local Hard drive

Thank
Antoine

 

[Skorpion (CET)]

I have a Windows 2000 Active Directory environment and I wish to stop
certain users from writing cds, but I want to let them read cds. If I
use group policy, and set the "Hide these specified drives in my
computer" policy I can only disable A,B,C,D drives but some of the
burners are on E: as D: is a local Hard drive.

Thanks
Antoine

I would say to provide each machine with a CD-ROM and *not* a CD-R(W)
drive...

You might have to do something special (physical?) to prevent connecting a
writable drive by parallel/usb...

 

[TDM]

Maybe this will work :

[Start] [Run] [Regedit]
Registry Key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explore
r
Modify/Create the Value Name [NoCDBurning] according to the Value Data
listed below.
Data Type: REG_DWORD [Dword Value] // Value Name: NoCDBurning
Value Data: [0 - Enable Burning / 1 - Disable Burning]
Exit Registry and Reboot

TDM

I have a Windows 2000 Active Directory environment and I wish to stop

certain users from writing cds, but I want to let them read cds. If I use
group policy, and set the "Hide these specified drives in my computer"
policy I can only disable A,B,C,D drives but some of the burners are on E:
as D: is a local Hard drive.

 

[TDM]

Whoops, forgot to mention locking down the whole machine :


Enable/Disable CD Burning for the Local Machine

[Start] [Run] [Regedit]
Registry Key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explor
er
Modify/Create the Value Name [NoCDBurning] according to the Value Data
listed below.
Data Type: REG_DWORD [Dword Value] // Value Name: NoCDBurning
Value Data: [0 - Enable Burning / 1 - Disable Burning]
Exit Registry and Reboot

I have a Windows 2000 Active Directory environment and I wish to stop

certain users from writing cds, but I want to let them read cds. If I use
group policy, and set the "Hide these specified drives in my computer"
policy I can only disable A,B,C,D drives but some of the burners are on E:
as D: is a local Hard drive.