Win2k Prof Administration Question?

[imhotepmp]

I sorta manage a couple of computers for my job and I had some questions regarding restricting computer usage. I figured out how to prevent regular users from installing programs, however my boss also wants "users" not to be able to do the following:
1. Prevent the Display/Properties from showing up in the right click menu(so they wont be able to change the desktop bg)
2. Allocate a Disk Quota for each student

Ive tried the group policy and security settings and none of those options are listed. Any Win2k administrators wanna give me a hand?
Would appreciate it.

thanks

Imhotep MP

 

[stash]

For the first question you will need to do a couple of things. First go to start, run and type gpedit.msc Expand user configuration, then administrative templates, then windows components, and click on Windows explorer. Look for "Remove Windows Explorer's default context menu" Double click and choose enable.

Next you need to restict access to the display panel through the control panel. The easiest way is to deny access to the whole control panel. Under administrative templates, click control panel. Look for "Prohibit access to the control panel" double click and choose enable. There are also options to either hide certain control panel applets or only show certain applets.

You didnt specify if you are running AD. If you are, then will just make these changes in group policy. If not, you will have to have a master machine...create a user account and give it admin privileges temporarily. Set up the profile the way you want, including these group policy changes (must have admin rights to do that part) Log out of the profile and back in as admin. Remove the user from the admins group, and copy the profile to the default user profile using the "copy to" button in the user profiles listing that you get when you right click on my computer and go to properties. Then you can make a ghost image of this machine.

As for the second question, I havent worked much with the built in quota system, so I dont know if you can do that...there are great aftermarket quota systems that will do that and more, but of course you have to pay for them.

 

[Woodie]

How are you going to use quotas? I thought that would be for the server, so a single user can't fill up the server.

IIRC, quotas in W2K still "don't work quite right".

 

[imhotepmp]

Originally posted by: Woodie
How are you going to use quotas? I thought that would be for the server, so a single user can't fill up the server.

IIRC, quotas in W2K still "don't work quite right".

the basic idea is to prevent users from filling up the computer with large files by limiting the amount of space they have to save files. This is a lab computer and it should not be filled up with non-lab files.

Imhotep MP