Re: Hide CD-Drive Letter?
- From: Uwe Sieber <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2008 23:28:07 +0200
Walter Primer wrote:
I have a visitor coming in a few days, and I have created a separate account for him, since merely giving access to the Guest account does not allow internet access. I also want to be able to hide the CD-Drive, so it cannot be accessed from My Computer/Explorer.
Using TweakUI, I can hide it from myself, but it still shows up when I login under the other user name. I am unable to run the TweakUI utility if I login as the other user since that program refuses to allow those without Admin rights to use the setup files.
As mentionend by 3c273 you can do it by changing
the accout to an admin, do the setting an change
it back to restricted.
But hiding the drive letter is quite useless.
Only the Explorer is affected at all and the
'protection' is cracked by just enting the drive
letter into the Explorer's address line or into
an open file dialog.
My USBDLM service (USB drive letter manager) can
assing (and remove) drive letters depending on
many criteria, also the user name or its admin
status. You need some settings in the INI file
to achieve this for internal CDROM drives.
By default USBDLM cares about USB flash and
hard drives only. To let it deal with an internal
CDROM drive we need so configuation lines more
than usual:
; letter D: for the admins
[DriveLetters10]
DriveType=CDROM
BusType=ATAPI
IsUserAdmin=1
Letter=D
; remove the letter for non admins
[DriveLetters11]
DriveType=CDROM
BusType=ATAPI
IsUserAdmin=0
Letter=-
Uwe
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