On 19 Mar 2010 at 12:31, Steven M. Caesare wrote:
> Perzactly.
>
> Not to mention the drive-letter juggling that happens on the low end
> when you add drives, mount .ISO's, insert USB keys, etc...
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"USBDLM is a Windows service that gives control over Window's drive letter
assignment for USB drives. Running as service makes it independent of the
logged on user's privileges, so there is no need to give the users the
privilege to change drive letters.
"It automatically solves conflicts between USB drives and network or subst
drives of the currently logged on user.
"Furthermore you can define new default letters for USB drives and much
more."
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More here with links: http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html
It looks like it has some really useful features:
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Configuration
Running without a configuration USBDLM only prevents that an new drive
gets the letter of a network share or a subst drive of the currently
logged on user. It remounts then to the next letter that is really
available.
USBDLM is configured thru a text file, the USBDLM.INI. The USBDLM.INI is
read from the folder of the USBDLM.EXE.
If required, read at Wikipedia how INI files work.
New default letters for new USB drives (flash or harddrive)
[DriveLetters]
Letter1=U
Letter2=Y
Letter3=Z
USBDLM can have up to 9 'LetterX' entries in each section. They don't have
to be continuous.
You can also use the short notation:
[DriveLetters]
Letters=U,Y,Z
Have a look into the help file USBDLM_ENG.CHM for more details. If you get
the 'cannot display the webpage' error then the help file has the NTFS
file attribute 'downloaded from untrusted source' and Microsoft doesn't
trust its own CHM file format. To fix this right click the USBDLM_E.CHM,
select Properties and click Unblock.
The help file is available online as HTML version too.
Card Readers
The typical 20-in-1 card reader eats one drive letter for each of its
slots - if we have a card for or not. USBDLM can remove the reader's drive
letter until a media is inserted.
[Settings]
NoMediaNoLetter=1
USBDLM assigns then a drive letter as configured. If you need different
drive letters for a multislot cardreader, then use the criterion
'DeviceType' in a DriveLetters section (MSCR is short for
MultiSlotCardReader which can be used too):
[DriveLetters1]
DeviceType=MSCR
Letter1=R
Letter2=W
Letter3=
Excluded drive letters
You can prevent Windows mounting to certain letters by putting them into
section ExcludedLetters. This is especially useful for letters of network
shares which Windows may assign to USB drives while booting. Do not
configure other letters than network, subst and TrueCrypt drives here!
[ExcludedLetters]
Letter1=F
Letter2=
Letter3=
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Anyone here have any experience with this?
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