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CD ROM locked due to security set..
Name: dorian Date: January 11, 2003 at 12:32:53 Pacific OS: win2000 SP3 CPU/Ram: AMD Athlon/ 520 /mb
Comment:
I'm using win2000. (erm, quite new to win2000) My CD rom drive seems to be locked - it seems not to give other applications the permission to access my drives! With some applications I get a messege the CD rom drive could not be found and I should go and fiddle with the Administrator settings... I tried to have a look - but obviously was not right clicking at the right icons in the right folders... zzz... How do I fix this?
Under your Admin Tools, in the Local Policies settings, you'll see a large list of things you can clamp or release in there. This includes restricting access to the CDR. Take a look there.
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Response Number 4
Name: dorian Date: January 12, 2003 at 14:18:40 Pacific
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ok, I tried - but could not see anything that might have havd anything to do with my problem... maybe apart from one option called: "Restrict CD-ROM access to locally logged-on users only" and that option was disabled anyway. Also, even if I tried to change it - it had no effect on the main list that displays what's enabled and what's not... I am totally lost!
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