[vmail]

Hi, how do i stop normal users from using the CD Writer, but only allow Admins to use it

OS XP

 

[Jason]

I looked around through the user accounts and stuff but I didn't see place to turn it off. You could try disabling the device in device manager and hope they don't figure it out. Other then that a third party program may have to be installed.

 

[johnwill]

If you disable it in Device Manager, can't you restrict ordanary users from accessing it? Also, how about hardware profiles, you could have that user's profile with the CD-RW disabled. Finally, Group Policies is probably the easiest way to kill it off.

 

[vmail]

please could you give me step by step instruction using Group Policies method

 

[johnwill]

I checked the policy editor, it seems there is no way to restrict local users, only remote users. I think I'd investigate using hardware profiles with the devices you want to limit access disabled in the user's profiles.

 

[G_thompson]

If your running w2k then try

control panel->administrative tools->local security policy->local security settings->local policies->security options

The option twelfth up from the bottom allows the administrator to restrict cd-r access.

I'm not sure if its the same thing johnwill was talking about or not so I thought I'd post it anyways.

 

[johnwill]

If you're talking about "Restrict CD-ROM access to locally logged on user only", that's the option I was talking about.

XP may have other options, I didn't check, since this system is a W2K system.