USB connected "memory stick" external drive.

[Sid Garwood]

I recently bought a USB external "Memory stick" or "flash
drive". We run Windows XP Professional on a number of our
machines and Windows '98 on others. There is no problem
with Windows '98, but with XP the system does not
recognise the drive unless the user is logged on
as "administrator". This is in a local network and the
administrator is reluctant to give
everyone "administrator" status - naturally enough.

What do we do about this? It's like saying you can't have
access to the diskett station. Can we redefine the user
or do we have to download an update?

While we are on that subject, we have had all sorts of
problems installing downloaded updates. What can we be
doing wrong?

[Thomas Wendell]

When I worked as IT support (now out of job) in a big gov't department, to
avoid having to run around installing everything for the users (who usually
managed quite well), we gave them local admin rights (ie only on their own
machine)

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"Sid Garwood" > kirjoitti viestissä
...
> I recently bought a USB external "Memory stick" or "flash
> drive". We run Windows XP Professional on a number of our
> machines and Windows '98 on others. There is no problem
> with Windows '98, but with XP the system does not
> recognise the drive unless the user is logged on
> as "administrator". This is in a local network and the
> administrator is reluctant to give
> everyone "administrator" status - naturally enough.
>
> What do we do about this? It's like saying you can't have
> access to the diskett station. Can we redefine the user
> or do we have to download an update?
>
> While we are on that subject, we have had all sorts of
> problems installing downloaded updates. What can we be
> doing wrong?