How can you prevent someone from using a DVD drive??

But its only 1 user ??? so cant prevent 1 type of user?

I couldnt see security either?

Cheers


Si

 

Glue it shut?

Seriously though if you have an NT based OS (ie. NT4, 2000 or XP)then you can prevent a user from accessing certain files on the hard disk (such as the DVD player software folder)

Joolz

 

yeah disabl software just at my dads work some one keeps playing dvds on it and its n open access machine

 

why not hide the drive letter in policies for that group of users?

 

Control Panel
System
Select DVD
Select Properties
Disable

 

We hide all drive letters apart from s and p... so I wrote the following script to find cd rom drives and make them visible... you could alter it do the opposite...

' ************************************************** *************
' * Enumerate CD-Rom Drive Letter and Change Visible Drive Mask *
' * David Wallis, PC / Server Support, 25/02/2002 *
' ************************************************** *************
On Error Resume Next
Dim FSys, xDrive, xDrives, intTestAsc

Set WShell = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")
Set FSys = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set xDrives = FSys.Drives
intCurrValue = "" ' Set to avoid problems with an empty reg key and using <> 0

For Each xDrive in xDrives
If xDrive.DriveType = 4 Then
intAsciDriveLetter = (Asc(xDrive.DriveLetter))
intTmpValue = intAsciDriveLetter - 64
intDecValue = 2 ^ intTmpValue
intTmpValue = NOT(intDecValue)
intcurrValue = WShell.RegRead("HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Cu rrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\NoDrives")
If intCurrValue <> "" Then
intNewValue = intTmpValue AND intCurrValue
RetCode = WShell.RegWrite("HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\C urrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\NoDrives", intNewValue,"REG_SZ")
End If
End If
Next

Set xDrive = Nothing
Set xDrives = Nothing
Set FSys = Nothing
Set WShell = Nothing

May have to click edit post for formatting...

David