I work for a school district and I have recently run into a problem with non-admins and usb flash drives. This problem is weird because it is not something that would be expected to just suddenly start happening. I started here a year ago and up to this point, teachers and students have been able to just plug in their flash drives and go. Now it prompts them for an admin username and password for any drive that has yet to be plugged into the system. I have found a few solutions but none have worked:
In my Active Directory GPO for the computers I have enabled “load and unload device drivers” and “eject and format removable storage”
I have tried giving modify to full control to the files %systemroot%\inf\usbstor.ini and %systemroot%\inf\usbstor.pnf
As an experiment I tried giving full control access to the C:\windows directory and all child folders.
Does any one have any suggestions as to what to try next? I am at my wits end. Thank you in advance! All Computers are gateways running Windows XP SP2.
Sorry if this is a bit long but I like details 🙂
