We have about 300 PCs running W2K in school laboratories.
The PCs are used for commercial arts classroom setting
instruction and projects. These include curricula like
graphic design, multimedia, animation and web design.

Because the students have a need to save their work to
portable devices so they can work at home, we find an
increasing number of students using removable devices
such as USB/Firewire flash drives and hard drives.

We recently basically took away administrator rights from
our student accounts for many of the reasons cited in
your responses below and are reluctant to give them back.

Is their some way to permit removable devices to
be "installed" (plugged into USB/Firewire connections)
for use by the students without giving them administrator
rights?

Hi

well known brands have their drivers pre-installed on Windows 2000. You have
to look for the ones that do not install their own driver but use the MS
supplied one.

Other brands, less known, will require drivers to be installed but you risk
all sorts of problems (BSODS, etc.)

cheers

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"Bob" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> We have about 300 PCs running W2K in school laboratories.
> The PCs are used for commercial arts classroom setting
> instruction and projects. These include curricula like
> graphic design, multimedia, animation and web design.
>
> Because the students have a need to save their work to
> portable devices so they can work at home, we find an
> increasing number of students using removable devices
> such as USB/Firewire flash drives and hard drives.
>
> We recently basically took away administrator rights from
> our student accounts for many of the reasons cited in
> your responses below and are reluctant to give them back.
>
> Is their some way to permit removable devices to
> be "installed" (plugged into USB/Firewire connections)
> for use by the students without giving them administrator
> rights?

Hi

well known brands have their drivers pre-installed on Windows 2000. You have
to look for the ones that do not install their own driver but use the MS
supplied one.

Other brands, less known, will require drivers to be installed but you risk
all sorts of problems (BSODS, etc.)

cheers

--
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--


"Bob" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:a0c901c3ebf1$3bfd2f40$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> We have about 300 PCs running W2K in school laboratories.
> The PCs are used for commercial arts classroom setting
> instruction and projects. These include curricula like
> graphic design, multimedia, animation and web design.
>
> Because the students have a need to save their work to
> portable devices so they can work at home, we find an
> increasing number of students using removable devices
> such as USB/Firewire flash drives and hard drives.
>
> We recently basically took away administrator rights from
> our student accounts for many of the reasons cited in
> your responses below and are reluctant to give them back.
>
> Is their some way to permit removable devices to
> be "installed" (plugged into USB/Firewire connections)
> for use by the students without giving them administrator
> rights?