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

sWiZzLe · 4 May 2007 at 12:27

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

Yes the root of C

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

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!