Permissions for USB flash drive

[Miha]

Hi

Since all of our company users (WinXP) are just 'ordinay domain users' some
of them wants to use USB flash drives, but to install they need admin
rights. Is there a way to give them permissions just to install new USB
flash drives to the sistem, not giving them admin rights?
Thanks.
Regards,
Miha

 

[aa]

I know a company where they disabled USB to prevent unauthorised copying of
data

 

[Gene K]

If I were your company IT person, you would NOT be able to stick personally
owned USB thumb drives in any company computer UNLESS the company had that
policy.
Gene K
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[aa]

If I were your company IT person, you would NOT be able to stick personally
owned USB thumb drives in any company computer UNLESS the company had that
policy.

What about sticking in Company's owned USB thumb drives ?

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

In

Hi

Since all of our company users (WinXP) are just 'ordinay domain
users' some of them wants to use USB flash drives, but to install
they need admin rights. Is there a way to give them permissions just
to install new USB flash drives to the sistem, not giving them admin
rights? Thanks.
Regards,
Miha

Unless you've changed some group policy settings, your users shouldn't need
admin rights to plug in a regular old USB flash drive - those don't require
device drivers.

 

[Christopher Kurtis Koeber]

I have this problem as well. I scoped out google but could not find a fix.

Does anyone know of the actual setting that can disable this? The help would
be greatly appreciated!
Regards,
Christopher Koeber

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"

 

[over]

I have this problem as well. I scoped out google but could not find a
fix.

Does anyone know of the actual setting that can disable this? The help
would be greatly appreciated!
Regards,
Christopher Koeber

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"

In

Unless you've changed some group policy settings, your users
shouldn't need admin rights to plug in a regular old USB flash drive
- those don't require device drivers.

They do require a driver - but it is usually already installed on the
system. The problem is possibly that the driver is unsigned, which quite
likely is not allowed to be installed by non-admins (depends on which
patches, etc. you have installed, or other policies that may be in
effect). If you remove the current driver and put in a signed one (as an
admin), maybe that will fix things. Once you have the driver installed,
users should pick up that one when they insert a new device or attach it
to a different USB port. Or perhaps I'm way off the mark here?

Wait until you move to Vista - I don't think that it normally allows
unsigned drivers at all (but does have new mechanisms to make
installations and other similar things easier while running as a non-
admin).