[olug] hard drive question

[charles.bird at powerdnn.com]

Its a good idea on their part for security reasons, usb drives can contain trojans etc, remember all those lcd picture frams from bestbuy owning machines as soon as the customer would plug them into their machine?

I've had it happen to me before with a thumb drive

As stated by the previous user, booting into knoppix to cp files would be the first logical workaround


-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Orwig <masterpo819 at gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2009 17:21:59 
To: Omaha Linux User Group<olug at olug.org>
Subject: Re: [olug] hard drive question


If the computers are Windoze - they have had a security policy applied to
block copying files. IMHOMy $WORK does this to their desktops.

Paul Orwig

On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Kelly Williams <kellywilliams81 at gmail.com>wrote:

> I was at my local college I plugged in my external hd its maxtor one
> touch 120 in there computer it allows me to view files but it will not
> let me copy to the hard drive. I tried another computer on there network
> and still blocks the drive from being written to. but when I use my
> computer at home I have full control of the drive. In the past i have
> been known to download a lot of stuff off the internet and i would use
> that drive to save all that stuff. I was all opensource software. but
> the network admin is anti opensource everything is Windows on there
> network. i'm wondering if they have it that my profile is setup to not
> except that drive. But I can use my flashdrives. I just looking for some
> ideas what it could be.
> Thanks,
> Kelly Williams
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