Floppy drive access   

Hello Everyone,

I have a specific question about access to the floppy drive on clients.

I have created a new OU and set group policy for the users in it
according to the standard document: Locking Down Windows Server 2003
Terminal Server Sessions. (July, 2003)

A few settings have not been implemented but that should be irrelevant
in this senario.

My problem is that in this standard setup the client computer can not
access his own local floppy drive, (natural, I know), but I would like
it otherwise because of the way the users are going to use this
installation. I have been trying to mess around with the logical
candidates to could allow access to the floppy drive like: Hide these
specified drives in My Computer and Prevent access to drives from My
Computer, but these seem only to deal with drives that are physically
on the server and not on the client. I know that it can work, because
if I log in using an other account with more rights then the floppy
drive is mapped and available as expected.

So my questions are:

A What policy controls if there is access to the clients local floppy
drive?

B Can I prevent execution rights to files found there, in other words
allow only read/write access to this drive?

Thank You,

Michael

date: 5 Aug 2005 05:10:19 -0700   author:   MBA

Re: Floppy drive access   

One question for you, have you mapped local drives in the RDP connection? If 
you haven't they will not be able to see the drive.

Cheers

Paul
"MBA"  wrote in message 
news:1123243819.716684.77790@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Hello Everyone,
>
> I have a specific question about access to the floppy drive on clients.
>
> I have created a new OU and set group policy for the users in it
> according to the standard document: Locking Down Windows Server 2003
> Terminal Server Sessions. (July, 2003)
>
> A few settings have not been implemented but that should be irrelevant
> in this senario.
>
> My problem is that in this standard setup the client computer can not
> access his own local floppy drive, (natural, I know), but I would like
> it otherwise because of the way the users are going to use this
> installation. I have been trying to mess around with the logical
> candidates to could allow access to the floppy drive like: Hide these
> specified drives in My Computer and Prevent access to drives from My
> Computer, but these seem only to deal with drives that are physically
> on the server and not on the client. I know that it can work, because
> if I log in using an other account with more rights then the floppy
> drive is mapped and available as expected.
>
> So my questions are:
>
> A What policy controls if there is access to the clients local floppy
> drive?
>
> B Can I prevent execution rights to files found there, in other words
> allow only read/write access to this drive?
>
> Thank You,
>
> Michael
>

date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 11:10:06 -0500   author:   Paul Tyler