[OPLINTECH] CD writers on Public computers

[Mann, James H.]

We use the Gates Security Toolkit and give them full control of the
CDRW. It's pretty simple to setup, but the computers still need to be in
a workgroup and run IE.
We don't load any burning software just let XP do it.
You can do the same thing with the Microsoft Shared Computer Security
tool (XP beta) but like DeepFreeze it restores the computer on reboot so
it may not be what you're looking for. The gotcha here is that you need
a real partition on your hard drive so you have to either repartition or
start from scratch with a partition that is 10% of your drive capacity
to create the restore image.
 
Jim Mann
Technology Coordinator
Greene County Public Library
Xenia Ohio 45385
(937) 376-2996 x210
mailto: jmann at gcpl.lib.oh.us
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From: oplintech-admin at oplin.org [mailto:oplintech-admin at oplin.org] On
Behalf Of JKENZIG
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 4:12 PM
To: Jim Lack; oplintech at oplin.org; oplinlist at oplin.org
Subject: RE: [OPLINTECH] CD writers on Public computers
 
Assuming you are using windows XP use the Policy to hide the C: drive
and My Computer and then just put a shortcut for Windows Explorer on the
desktop. Also look up the Microsoft Shared computing kit for help with
lockdowns and policies.  XP allows you to drag and drop copy files to a
CD writable drive within explorer.
Jim Kenzig
Network Manager
Cuyahoga County Public Library
 
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From: oplintech-admin at oplin.org on behalf of Jim Lack
Sent: Wed 9/28/2005 12:35 PM
To: oplintech at oplin.org; oplinlist at oplin.org
Subject: [OPLINTECH] CD writers on Public computers
I'm sure this issue has been brought up in the past so I apologize.  We
would like to make CD writers available on Public computers.  Our
concern is making them available without compromising computer security.
I don't want to give the public account access to the C drive if I don't
have to.  Currently, we have Windows 2000 and we are using Active
directory settings to button down on what the public has access to.  The
new computers will be running Windows XP.  If anyone out there has
implemented this, how did you go about doing so?
 
Thanks,
 
Jim Lack
Rocky River Public Library
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