Topic: blocking USB drives through group policy.

[prashan]

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

[nicolatiana]

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

[Xavier.A]

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 

[Stefano]

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