I want to plug in a USB memory stick into my work computer. What I am wondering is if I do this will everybody see the USB stick since everyone is on a shared network?

No other users will not be able to see wats on your memory stick unless you make it a share drive...By default it not so its safe to use it dude....

No one should be able to see it. As an aside, if you have mapped network drives at work, your memory stick may not show up. You may need to use Disk Management to assign it an unused drive letter. Happens all the time with mapped network drives.

If you brought a USB stick to my company network without the EXPRESS permission of IT you would be FIRED on the spot for violating security policies. Might want to check on that first before you go any farther. Give a person a fish, they eat for a day. Suggest they internet search and they learn a skill for a lifetime.

Well, not everyone but..., anyone with admin or other domain rights can see what is on that drive. \\sharename\usbdrive letter$ is all I need. There are many shadow programs out there to monitor.

I agree with Wanderer, we run a .reg file in our log on script which disables USB ports on every machine otherwise your security is non existent, and since we are a Bank that is strictly verboten! Oh, and before you ask the users are policied and cannot "hack" the registry. Regards, Bob. That is the biggest fool thing we have ever done. The Atomic bomb will never go off, and I speak as an expert in explosives. - Admiral William Leahy

Most of the companies I deal with use this procedure to disable the use of USB storage devices on all workstations. They also have a policy in place that says whoever try to tweak with it will be unilaterally terminated. i_XpUser