Locking down CD and Floppy Disk Drives

[johnsonp]

Does anyone know of any VB routines (or other) that will allow me to 'lock' access to the floppy disk and CD-ROM drives on a Windows 2000 PC? I have a requirement to stop unauthorised access to the PC - to stop loading of data or software, but perhaps more importantly, to stop theft of data. However, the VB6 application software must re-enable the floppy and CD-RW in order to do backups and CSV exports. (I'm looking for something other than NT user profiles or policies!)

Regards,
Phil Johnson

 

[micman]

Since you want to deny complete access to a PC (Loading, Reading any kind of Software) i would suggest the development of routines that intercept certain keystrokes such as:

Ctrl+Alt+Del, Atl+Tab and other Shortcuts.

I would also suggest searching for routines that hide the taskbar.

PS: I have developed an application (Windows'98) that copies the picture of the desktop into a maximized form, Making the form the TOP most, Display a textbox prompting for a proper password and hide the mouse pointer.

I hope that helped ....
ARISTON Engineering Ltd
Michael Vezyrgianopoulos
R&D Manager

 

[mattKnight]

hi,

There is a way, using NT security to assign a DACL to the floppy and I assume for the CD.

There is an example of this in the Platform sdk, try searching MSDN for it

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...en-us/vcsample98/html/vcsmpsd_flppysample.asp

is the link.

However It isn't a VB method...

Hope that helps

Matt