- Permissions for USB flash drive
- Posted by Miha on January 12th, 2007
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
- Posted by Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] on January 13th, 2007
In news:%23oyfs5iNHHA.5000@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl,
Miha <miha.bernik@email.si> typed:
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.
- Posted by Christopher Kurtis Koeber on January 14th, 2007
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
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- Posted by over@my.place on January 14th, 2007
"Christopher Kurtis Koeber" <ckoeber@gmail.com> wrote in
news:NAjqh.27625$NX3.19865@fe05.news.easynews.com:
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).
