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blocking USB drives through group policy.

Offline prashan

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blocking USB drives through group policy.
« on: March 27, 2014, 10:26:44 AM »
Hi, i am new to sme server, i would like to know can we block the USB drive access in the client machines by having a policy in SME server 8.0

Offline nicolatiana

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Re: blocking USB drives through group policy.
« Reply #1 on: March 27, 2014, 04:55:05 PM »
Assuming that you familiar with Windows Policy settings, take a look here:
http://forums.contribs.org/index.php/topic,43249.msg205646.html#msg205646
http://forums.contribs.org/index.php/topic,49508.msg247466.html#msg247466
You can make some job with Xp workstations and no more. I made some test a few years ago and it worked.

Nicola
Consulente di Smeserver.it -  Soluzioni e supporto su Sme server in Italia.

Offline Xavier.A

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Re: blocking USB drives through group policy.
« Reply #2 on: March 28, 2014, 05:14:21 PM »
You can make some job with Xp workstations and no more. I made some test a few years ago and it worked.

WinXP is in EOL (08/04/2014) don't use it or don't install it anymore ! You should better install Debian Wheezy workstation  :P
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Offline Stefano

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Re: blocking USB drives through group policy.
« Reply #3 on: March 28, 2014, 05:52:24 PM »
Hi, i am new to sme server, i would like to know can we block the USB drive access in the client machines by having a policy in SME server 8.0

SME server is not an AD server and this kind of features is unavailable on linux..
you must work on client side