Prevent Access to Floppy Drives by certain users.

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I have a customer that asked if there is a way to prevent certain users from
access the floppy drives on workstations? The users logon as domain users.
The only way that I know is to actually remove the floppy or disable it in
the BIOS.

Is there anything in Windows that would prevent certain users from accessing
these drives?

DRMAN
 
Scott said:
I have a customer that asked if there is a way to prevent certain users from
access the floppy drives on workstations? The users logon as domain users.
The only way that I know is to actually remove the floppy or disable it in
the BIOS.

Is there anything in Windows that would prevent certain users from accessing
these drives?
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Hi

To block specified drive letters:

Prevent Access to the Contents of Selected Drives
http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/1157/

It is the same as this Group Policy setting:

Prevent access to drives from My Computer
(User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Windows
Explorer)

GPO reference:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/gp/340.asp


You should combine it with this one if you want to hide the drives as well:

Hide Drives in My Computer
http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/148/

GPO reference:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/gp/239.asp


I have not found any Group Policy setting that disables floppy or CD-ROM
specifically (only one that can disable them from remote access).
 
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