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Users can't access CD-R and Zip Drives

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by rcody

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I have several systems that are in a AD domain. These systems all have a CD-R and Zip installed localy. When a user is logged in they can not write to the CD-R or Zip. As an administrator I can access both without any problems. What should the minimum rigths be that I need to grant the uses to allow them to use thier CD-R and Zips?

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by billc124

I think at the very least they need to be Power Users, maybe you can get away with making them backup operators. One of those two should work.

by junething

Well, both are right if they are in non-AD network. Power users and administrator for local machine will give them access to each local cd-r and zip drives. However since this is AD intergrated domain, you would have to treat cd-r and zip as a disk/volume. Along with that, You would have to create/assign the NTFS permission for minium rights, which in this case is "write". Another cool thing about it is that, after doing this, you can actually give permission to other computers to read the content of the cd-r dirves and zip.

Remember, there are two types of LAN. One is peer to peer, which includes Local Administrator and Power users. Second is AD domains, where Power users account no longer exists. Followed by addition of Domain Administator, Enterprise Administrator and Schema Administrators.

Hope this helps.

by dhamilt0

Check out group policies to control what the users can do. You can set them at the machine level also. It is a good way to allow specific functions or shut them out of certain functions.

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