disabling SD Card access & optical Access
Hi folks, I'd love to be able to do this with a GPO, but these are for machines who won't be connecting to Active Directory. I've managed to disable USB Storage access by omitting everyone but Admins from usbstor.inf and usbstor.pnf. The laptop has an SD Card slot. Is there a way to disable this at a local level? I could log as Admin then delete the driver, but Plug n play would only re-install it again after a reboot? I'm waiting on confirmation from the Net Admin about disabling access to the DVD drawer as well. Basically these laptops are being used as a temporary device for presentations. The users log-in through their Citrix session and access their presentation files from their Network drive. Going forward we'll be using iPads. Cheers, Barry. Barry Toner ICT Assistant ICT Department Clanmil Housing Northern Whig House 3 Waring Street Belfast BT1 2DX Tel: 02890 876000 Fax: 02890 876001
Hi Barry, What about disabling the driver, rather than deleting it? You can do this in device manager. All the best Steve -- Computer Room Services 77 Exeter Close Stevenage Hertfordshire SG1 4PW Tel: +44(0)1438-742286 Mob: +44(0)7956-334938 Fax: +44(0)1438-759589 Email: steve@comproom.co.uk Web: http://www.comproom.co.uk -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Barry Toner Sent: 15 November 2012 11:34 To: blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] disabling SD Card access & optical Access Hi folks, I'd love to be able to do this with a GPO, but these are for machines who won't be connecting to Active Directory. I've managed to disable USB Storage access by omitting everyone but Admins from usbstor.inf and usbstor.pnf. The laptop has an SD Card slot. Is there a way to disable this at a local level? I could log as Admin then delete the driver, but Plug n play would only re-install it again after a reboot? I'm waiting on confirmation from the Net Admin about disabling access to the DVD drawer as well. Basically these laptops are being used as a temporary device for presentations. The users log-in through their Citrix session and access their presentation files from their Network drive. Going forward we'll be using iPads. Cheers, Barry. Barry Toner ICT Assistant ICT Department Clanmil Housing Northern Whig House 3 Waring Street Belfast BT1 2DX Tel: 02890 876000 Fax: 02890 876001 _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins
Hi Steve, Good thinking. Regular User accounts wont' have access to Device Manage to re-enable it will they? Regards, Barry. -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Steve Nutt Sent: 15 November 2012 11:36 To: 'Blind sysadmins list' Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] disabling SD Card access & optical Access Hi Barry, What about disabling the driver, rather than deleting it? You can do this in device manager. All the best Steve -- Computer Room Services 77 Exeter Close Stevenage Hertfordshire SG1 4PW Tel: +44(0)1438-742286 Mob: +44(0)7956-334938 Fax: +44(0)1438-759589 Email: steve@comproom.co.uk Web: http://www.comproom.co.uk -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Barry Toner Sent: 15 November 2012 11:34 To: blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] disabling SD Card access & optical Access Hi folks, I'd love to be able to do this with a GPO, but these are for machines who won't be connecting to Active Directory. I've managed to disable USB Storage access by omitting everyone but Admins from usbstor.inf and usbstor.pnf. The laptop has an SD Card slot. Is there a way to disable this at a local level? I could log as Admin then delete the driver, but Plug n play would only re-install it again after a reboot? I'm waiting on confirmation from the Net Admin about disabling access to the DVD drawer as well. Basically these laptops are being used as a temporary device for presentations. The users log-in through their Citrix session and access their presentation files from their Network drive. Going forward we'll be using iPads. Cheers, Barry. Barry Toner ICT Assistant ICT Department Clanmil Housing Northern Whig House 3 Waring Street Belfast BT1 2DX Tel: 02890 876000 Fax: 02890 876001 _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins
Hi Steve, Good thinking. Regular User accounts wont' have access to Device Manage to re-enable it will they? Regards, Barry. -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Steve Nutt Sent: 15 November 2012 11:36 To: 'Blind sysadmins list' Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] disabling SD Card access & optical Access Hi Barry, What about disabling the driver, rather than deleting it? You can do this in device manager. All the best Steve -- Computer Room Services 77 Exeter Close Stevenage Hertfordshire SG1 4PW Tel: +44(0)1438-742286 Mob: +44(0)7956-334938 Fax: +44(0)1438-759589 Email: steve@comproom.co.uk Web: http://www.comproom.co.uk -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Barry Toner Sent: 15 November 2012 11:34 To: blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] disabling SD Card access & optical Access Hi folks, I'd love to be able to do this with a GPO, but these are for machines who won't be connecting to Active Directory. I've managed to disable USB Storage access by omitting everyone but Admins from usbstor.inf and usbstor.pnf. The laptop has an SD Card slot. Is there a way to disable this at a local level? I could log as Admin then delete the driver, but Plug n play would only re-install it again after a reboot? I'm waiting on confirmation from the Net Admin about disabling access to the DVD drawer as well. Basically these laptops are being used as a temporary device for presentations. The users log-in through their Citrix session and access their presentation files from their Network drive. Going forward we'll be using iPads. Cheers, Barry. Barry Toner ICT Assistant ICT Department Clanmil Housing Northern Whig House 3 Waring Street Belfast BT1 2DX Tel: 02890 876000 Fax: 02890 876001 _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins
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