Locking down the C: drive

[hallac]

I'm putting together a machine that has one permenant hard drive (c:) and eight separate removable drives. I've loaded Win2KPro on the c: drive, added all appropriate services packs, etc. I formatted the eight removable drives in NTFS 5.0. I want the users to run the Operating System from the c: drive, but only be able to write to the removable drives. So......what I need to know now is how to lock down the c: drive so that users can only write & store data to the removable drives. This may mean moving profiles too? Any help or suggestions are greatly appreciated....

[dschauland]

You cannot completely lock down the C drive as the system needs to write to it, but you could set up home directories for your users on the removeable drives and have that users drive mapped when they log in... thus storing my docs and other user specific folders on a section of those drives.

Derek Schauland, MCSE on Windows 2000

[Wear2Go]

Example registry entry: (I put mine in [HKEY_USERS]\<SID # of employee>\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersio n\Policies\Explorer
Create a new DWORD Value under this key and set it equal to a decimal value of 4 to hide the "C" drive from this user

Reference sites:
http://is-it-true.org/nt/registry/rtips104.shtml

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/reskit/en/regentry/GPRef.htm#93573