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Limit access to local drives.

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by msadowsky

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We are a public library with 7 staff computers running NT40 on a NT4 server. What we want to do is restrict access to the C: drive on all staff workstations, forcing staff to save their work to their personal folders on the server. Is there a solution to this problem?

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by felipe

Yes there is an ansewer to this. I maintain a public library with 17 computers (NT4 on 12 and XP on 5) Access to Drive "C" is not allowed for many reasons. First create a shortcut to the server drive on desktop. Then run Policy editor on each computer (it is found on the server or you can download or get from a windows installation CD). Open the registry->open local user->open shell ->open restrictions ->click on "hide drives in my computer" and close and save. after logout or reboot, local drives will be gone. This should be set on the user's account. The administrator will still have access to all local drives (in case of trouble). You can also save the policy editor file as NTConfig.pol on the \\server\netlogon folder. This will force anyone logging in to run this policy. Good luck.

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