USB Floppy drive access to Admins & Power Users

[Guest]

Hi,

In our organization we have numerous Windows 2000 laptops, however we do not
run a Windows domain, and each client is managed as a stand-alone.

Our policy is that the user is to have Power User rights on their laptops.
However, when the user plugs in their USB Floppy Disk Drive, they get an
error saying they don't have permission to install the hardware.

I have tried temporarily elevating their priveliges to Admin (locally) and
the installing the USB floppy, and then moving them back to Power User. This
seems to work temporarily, but the problem appears again a few days later.

Is their a permissions or Local Policy setting that I'm missing that will
allow Power Users to access the USB floppy drive? I think the problem may be
that Win2k considers the USB floppy to be "Removable Media".

Thanks in advance!

 

[Guest]

I think the problem appears when windows is trying to install the drivers for
the floppy. Only Admins can install drivers. did they try to connect the usb
floppy device to the same usb port?

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[Guest]

Yes, the drive connects to the same port. I agree with your comment re:
loading drivers. I have also tried editing the local Group Policy and
explicitly allowing the user to load device drivers. After trying this, I
noticed that the New Hardware wizard got a bit farther along, but at the end
it says it "Finished with Errors and Hardware not installed successfully".

jd