1) Cool utility, thanks for passing that on. 2) This line saddens me: " If required, read at Wikipedia how INI files work."
-sc -----Original Message----- From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2010 1:21 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: CMD line way to change CD Rom drive letter 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... ------- Included Stuff Follows ------- "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." --------- Included Stuff Ends --------- More here with links: http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html It looks like it has some really useful features: ------- Included Stuff Follows ------- 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= --------- Included Stuff Ends --------- Anyone here have any experience with this? A -- Angus Scott-Fleming GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona 1-520-290-5038 Security Blog: http://geoapps.com/ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
