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Floplock for CD-ROM drive ??

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by abone 1 view

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In the NT reskit there is the floplock.exe programme for limiting access to the floppy drive. Does anyone know of a method for doing the same with CD-ROM drives, whereby access can be controlled remotely over the network.

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by erikdr

Yep, but this is a total package doing a lot more than this (also for CD-ROM etc. you can be more granular, e.g. allowing data reads but no program launches). Hence the price of about USD 75 per workstation.

www.utimaco.de (site also in English),watch for SafeGuard Advanced Security.
Since we implemented it (also for diskettes and Jazz drives) quite a few users cannot do things anymore which they were never supposed to do but technically could, bad luck for their 'illegally' introduced Jazzdrives :-))

/ The Netherlands

by mckaytech

In the past, I have had CD drives that supported locking and by using a utility that the CD manufacturer provided, you could disable the front panel buttons in software.

I don't know about other drives, but Teac has a firmware update for their 16x, 24x and 32x drives that supports software disabling of the front panel power-tray buttons and it would seem likely that this function could be implemented across a network in a couple of different ways.

I know this isn't the whole answer, but maybe it's a start...

paul

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