Blocking access to my desktop USB and other ports

Hi,
Can somebody tell me how i can disallow the users on my
network from using the desktops USB port. We have several
PCs over the network and need to secure our information.

Since the PCs used on our network are shared by users
working on different shifts, some i can allow to use the
USB ports external storage devices, while other i must
refuse them the usage of the USb ports. We can identify
the user based on user logon.

i am not looking the solution wherein we can disable the
USB port in the system bios.

Thanx for your help in advance.

Jagdish S Varma

Steven
Wed Jan 28 10:45:40 CST 2004

I know of no way to do that within the operating system. There are third party
tools that supposedly can do such. There is a KB article about controlling
access in XP that may be of help if you try to modify permissions on .inf files
and registry keys for certain users and groups. --- Steve

http://devicelock.securitybyte.com/
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;823732

"Jagdish S Varma" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:582901c3e5b1$9b193b40$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> Hi,
> Can somebody tell me how i can disallow the users on my
> network from using the desktops USB port. We have several
> PCs over the network and need to secure our information.
>
> Since the PCs used on our network are shared by users
> working on different shifts, some i can allow to use the
> USB ports external storage devices, while other i must
> refuse them the usage of the USb ports. We can identify
> the user based on user logon.
>
> i am not looking the solution wherein we can disable the
> USB port in the system bios.
>
> Thanx for your help in advance.
>
> Jagdish S Varma
>

System
Wed Jan 28 14:52:16 CST 2004

May also want to check out SecureNT from SecureWave

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"Jagdish S Varma" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:582901c3e5b1$9b193b40$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> Hi,
> Can somebody tell me how i can disallow the users on my
> network from using the desktops USB port. We have several
> PCs over the network and need to secure our information.
>
> Since the PCs used on our network are shared by users
> working on different shifts, some i can allow to use the
> USB ports external storage devices, while other i must
> refuse them the usage of the USb ports. We can identify
> the user based on user logon.
>
> i am not looking the solution wherein we can disable the
> USB port in the system bios.
>
> Thanx for your help in advance.
>
> Jagdish S Varma
>