USB Flash disk need admin priviledges?? wth

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Jonny Two Shoes

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Hi there,

Some research on this has been fruitless thus far.

We have a user who requires her laptop for training and lecturing purposes. She frequently uses Flash Disks on her laptop for various reasons.

I cannot figure out why she would require admin priviledges every time she plugs a flash disk in when no other user with the same win2000 image and "power user" profile needs to.

Her user account seems fine and comparing account details to other users reveals nothing that may cause this.

Is there a setting that would cause this that anyone here may know of??
I would really appreciate some help.
 
I have a question, my USB has system files on it an its 97MB, can i delete it?? What does it do?
 
Maybe its some sort of driver issue? I had the same problem before but I just clicked cancel and it detected my flash stick and worked anyway.
 
From the info you supplied I would suspect that she has encrypted her flash drive and when you insert it into the laptop it tries to install the encryption/decryption software for which she would need administrator priviladges. Or compression software.

If its not that I have no idea. :confused:
 
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Myrrdin said:
From the info you supplied I would suspect that she has encrypted her flash drive and when you insert it into the laptop it tries to install the encryption/decryption software for which she would need administrator priviladges. Or compression software.

If its not that I have no idea. :confused:
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Yep could be something like that. Try a flash disk from another user and see what happens.
 
JK8 said:
I have a question, my USB has system files on it an its 97MB, can i delete it?? What does it do?
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What a thread hi-jacker lol :p I don't mind, just kidding.

Anyway I have tried many flash disks on said laptop and all do the same. They will not install without admin priviledges.
I was thinking along the lines of a group policy but she is no different to others with regard to this. I'm still investigating however.

So it can't be a setting can it?! hmmmm
Otherwise I have a few ideas that will hopefully work. I just thought to ask before I mess around fully and do stupid things :p
 
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Does she have admin rights to her Laptop ?

Could also be an issue.
If her provile is user only that could be the problem. Set her up to Admin and it should be fine.
 
Jonny Two Shoes said:
What a thread hi-jacker lol :p I don't mind, just kidding.

Anyway I have tried many flash disks on said laptop and all do the same. They will not install without admin priviledges.
I was thinking along the lines of a group policy but she is no different to others with regard to this. I'm still investigating however.

So it can't be a setting can it?! hmmmm
Otherwise I have a few ideas that will hopefully work. I just thought to ask before I mess around fully and do stupid things :p
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:o:o:o Try right clicking on the usb connection thingy on the bottom right toolbar...
or even try a default password
Or see i it works on another laptop or just reformat the damn thing!:)
 
not the most eloquent solution, but have you tried backing up her files and creating a new local user profile for her?
or seeing if other user accounts on the system do the same thing?
 
As policy states I am not allowed to grant any user on the INTERNATIONAL domain admin rights...otherwise I get fired :p

Also the laptop is so frighteningly slow it takes forever to troubleshoot.

As for a format/re-install I doubt the user will enjoy that bit of news...us admins know all too well how users complain :) she simply does not have the time !! :/

What I have done now is make her account admin temporarily, then insert a flash disk. It went through a huge long process of installing (not what Im used to), whereby I had to point it to the windows setup.ini file and click yes when it moaned about digital signatures etc.

So after that I put her back onto "Power User" and when I insert my flash disk it picks it up fine. I tried another flash disk and also fine...however Im not entirely convinced its 100% because Im pretty sure some flash disk down the line will need other drivers. So the user will bring one tomorrow to test and keep me updated.

Thanks all :)
 
Jonny Two Shoes said:
As policy states I am not allowed to grant any user on the INTERNATIONAL domain admin rights...otherwise I get fired :p

Also the laptop is so frighteningly slow it takes forever to troubleshoot.

As for a format/re-install I doubt the user will enjoy that bit of news...us admins know all too well how users complain :) she simply does not have the time !! :/

What I have done now is make her account admin temporarily, then insert a flash disk. It went through a huge long process of installing (not what Im used to), whereby I had to point it to the windows setup.ini file and click yes when it moaned about digital signatures etc.

So after that I put her back onto "Power User" and when I insert my flash disk it picks it up fine. I tried another flash disk and also fine...however Im not entirely convinced its 100% because Im pretty sure some flash disk down the line will need other drivers. So the user will bring one tomorrow to test and keep me updated.

Thanks all :)
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I hear you.

However your not going to give her Admin rights to the server but to the actual Laptop. Maybe just check the policies
 
Pitbull said:
I hear you.

However your not going to give her Admin rights to the server but to the actual Laptop. Maybe just check the policies
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No for sure I understand what you saying. It's just a thing we have to avoid allowing users rights to install their own stuff. Apparently before I started here this company was nailed for software a user had installed without being able to provide a license :/

Since then no users are allowed admin rights. As they all have international accounts I assume corporate in Chicago could pick that up if I leave it as an admin...or at least the auditors will :eek:
 
Jonny Two Shoes said:
No for sure I understand what you saying. It's just a thing we have to avoid allowing users rights to install their own stuff. Apparently before I started here this company was nailed for software a user had installed without being able to provide a license :/

Since then no users are allowed admin rights. As they all have international accounts I assume corporate in Chicago could pick that up if I leave it as an admin...or at least the auditors will :eek:
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Now that would be the problem right there.

The user is not allowed to add any sofware to the laptop due to restictions. Now remember that the Flash drive needs to install the drivers first. Now everytime this happens the Admin message should pop up. However if you allow the install to take place once. It should not ask for it again. unless it's some cheap brand of flash drive.

Let me explain:

On my work PC :

There are 4 profiles for different users. I have admin as this is my station the other 3 just have user access.

This means. On their usernames they can use my Station but not load or delete anything on their profile. I however can as I have admin rights to this station. I can't explain it differently.


Just my 2c
 
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