Limit external HDD use

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Alex

Hi Friends, I have a quick question, I have an External
USB drive on my work desktop machine, but this machine is
used by some coworkers, some times I take home the USB
drive also. What I want to do is to not allow the access
to external USB drives in My work machine, only allow the
access to the administrators accounts, I dont want to use
the NTFS security because as I mentioned before, I also
use the drive in home.
Thanks
Alex
 
Click on properties for the drive and go to the Sharing Tab. Make sure it is not shared.
 
I think that I didn't explain very well, what I really
what is that just the Administrator can "connect" the USB
drive to the local machine, the other users can connect it
locally and see the information, this is what I want to
avoid.
Thanks
Alex
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Click on properties for the drive and go to the Sharing
Click to expand...
Tab. Make sure it is not shared.
 
You can use NTFS and add both User SID's to the drive. You are going to
have to play with permissions otherwise I can't think of anything that
can do this. I'm not even sure if you could fully do this with NTFS.

Sounds like the only way you can do this is password protect the drive
and require "authentication" upon connecting the drive to a computer.
This would mean only the administrator can authenticate the drive and
after that point, it should be accessible. I'm not entirely sure how
you would go about doing this though.
 
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