Can i stop users copying files to the system drive?

sWiZzLe · 4 May 2007 at 12:09

Staff out here love music videos and they keep copying them to the c drive, causing the os to stop working.
Im now using TweakUI to redirect user directories to another drive, but was wondering how i can easily stop them from copying to the c drive?

XP and 2k,

Cheers

mike1210 · 4 May 2007 at 12:21

domain or workgroup? 2K3 server if domain?

Do you mean the root of the C drive or in thier profile

sWiZzLe · 4 May 2007 at 12:27

No, no workgroup or servers etc, just standalone workstations.

Yes the root of C

mike1210 · 4 May 2007 at 12:29

swiping thier admin rights would sort that out

sWiZzLe · 4 May 2007 at 13:13

I encountered problems using flash drives when restricting rights.
Staff need to be able to use flash drives

M0KUJ1N · 4 May 2007 at 13:20

The chances are that these problems are being experienced with pen drives that require drivers. Stick to pen drives that act as standard USB mass storage devices (IME Corsair and Crucial) and you shouldnt encounter any problems using them with standard user accounts. Either that or insert the pem drives whilst logged in as an admin user the first time to allow it to install its drivers.

sWiZzLe · 4 May 2007 at 14:39

M0KUJ1N said:
The chances are that these problems are being experienced with pen drives that require drivers. Stick to pen drives that act as standard USB mass storage devices (IME Corsair and Crucial) and you shouldnt encounter any problems using them with standard user accounts. Either that or insert the pem drives whilst logged in as an admin user the first time to allow it to install its drivers.

No, these dont require drivers, and hmm Corsair and Crucial would be lovely, but they dont sell them here :rolleyes:

Ill have a play with the accounts, but im sure ive tried that already.

If the worst comes to worst and there bugger up their pc's, sod em!
I've told so many times not to copy vcd's to the hard drive.... they do it again, i wont be able to help, im coming home baby

sWiZzLe · 4 May 2007 at 15:04

Just had a cunning, rather evil idea:

I could remove their cd-drives from their computers

That would work!

marc_howarth · 4 May 2007 at 22:57

Can you not just set NTFS permissions to only allow read access to the root of C. If this stops them writing in their documents could you just then map a new drive and allocate seperate NTFS permission to that

just a thought

mike1210 · 4 May 2007 at 22:58

marc_howarth said:
Can you not just set NTFS permissions to only allow read access to the root of C. If this stops them writing in their documents could you just then map a new drive and allocate seperate NTFS permission to that

just a thought

id imagine it would mess up the build big time as some folders need more than just read, list and execute permissions, swiping admin rights would also do this and be much easier to be honest

dirtybeatfreak · 4 May 2007 at 23:29

im sure there was a program that deletes and reverts any changes made when the computer is shut down, but that may just be on client-server networks..

mike1210 · 4 May 2007 at 23:32

alangelluk said:
im sure there was a program that deletes and reverts any changes made when the computer is shut down, but that may just be on client-server networks..

IIRC its called net-runna or similar but isn't cheap