Re: Drives segregation

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From: Alex (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/20/04

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    Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 18:48:27 -0800

    Thank you for your response. I think it's the only way.

    >-----Original Message-----
    >If the user must have administrator rights on that PC,
    you can't really lock
    >them out of the CD or floppy.
    >
    >*If* there were something you could set to block them,
    they have
    >administrator rights, they could undo what you set.
    >
    >I think your only option is to remove them from the
    computer.
    >
    >
    >hth
    >DDS W 2k MVP MCSE
    >
    >"Alex" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
    message
    >news:57fe01c4c851$d14b84b0$a601280a@phx.gbl...
    >Excuse me for my bad english, i want to know how can i
    >deny the access to drives (floppy and CDROM) to a USER on
    >win2000. On PC is running an application then wants the
    >administrative rights so the user MUST to have them. A
    >solution could be to deny the access on desktop and START
    >menù giving the perimission only to the application but i
    >don't know how to do. Can you help me?
    >Thank you!
    >
    >
    >.
    >

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