ENABLE usb drive installs for Power User?

[Windy]

Our staff are configured as Power Users on their XP Pro workstations.
When they attempt to use a USB flash drive, no new drive appears.
However, when I'm logged in as Administrator, and insert the drive, it
appears with a drive letter. What policies control this behavior? I
can't find anything in the MS Knowledgebase.

Contrary to what most want to do, I want to ALLOW folks to be able to
use a USB "flash/keychain" drive in their machine without my
assistance.

tia.

 

[Windy]

Anyone?
Is this unusual behavior in the first place?

 

[Steve Riley [MSFT]]

Perhaps your machines are getting a GPO that's blocking access to
USBSTOR.DLL? That's the driver that typically loads when USB drivers are
inserted.

 

[Windy]

I'll take a look.

I did take the time to RESTORE all the Default security settings on
one machine, and it did not help. Should the DEFAULT security
settings allow full access to USB devices for POWER USERS?

I now have 2 XP Pro machines that won't allow proper interactions with
the USB port devices; one is the aforementioned USB keychain drive,
the other is a USB hotsynch cradle for a PDA.

I'm really unsure as to why this is happening.
I did see MS KBase article <http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=823732>
and I'll try checking to see what I've got going on with that.