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allow users to change drive labels?
Windows XP SP3 on a Server 2003 domain. A user asked me today if he could have the ability to change the volume labels on his USB flash drives. I'm not referring to changing the drive letter, just the label. User is not an admin, and apparently standard users do not have permission to change drive labels. Can this permission be granted in group policy or is there any other way besides making him a local admin?
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I've never seen anything relating to that in GPO's in my years of Windows sysadmin work. Possibly in 2008R2/Win7 GPO's. NTFS ACL's wouldn't help as that's above the level where you can set ACL's. Hitting properties under Disk manager and the like doesn't yield any security settings (that would only affect a single drive though).
Hate to tell you plenty of ways you can't do it, but it's not a problem I've ever noticed before. Grantsewell might be right... have you tried doing it without admin privileges? I'd assume you have, but I've never noticed I couldn't re-label a disk before, although I'm often an admin on any machine I'm on.
Hate to tell you plenty of ways you can't do it, but it's not a problem I've ever noticed before. Grantsewell might be right... have you tried doing it without admin privileges? I'd assume you have, but I've never noticed I couldn't re-label a disk before, although I'm often an admin on any machine I'm on.
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Thanks for the replies.
devinnoel - I have tested it as a non-admin. When I right-click the drive and choose rename, it lets me type in a name, but as soon as I hit enter I get an error - "You do not have sufficient rights to perform this operation." Same thing if I go into properties and set it there. I have not tested it yet as a power user, this may be an option.
grantsewell - Yes, I tried setting it by right-clicking the drive and setting it in properties. Works while logged in as admin, but standard users get the attached error.
volume-rename-error.JPG
devinnoel - I have tested it as a non-admin. When I right-click the drive and choose rename, it lets me type in a name, but as soon as I hit enter I get an error - "You do not have sufficient rights to perform this operation." Same thing if I go into properties and set it there. I have not tested it yet as a power user, this may be an option.
grantsewell - Yes, I tried setting it by right-clicking the drive and setting it in properties. Works while logged in as admin, but standard users get the attached error.
volume-rename-error.JPG
download gpmc from microsoft on your dc (for ease of management) if 2008 dont have it already..
then edit your policy settings and go thru the thousands of entries until you see one that relates to that issue an change the setting from off to on.. and then update the policies and push to the clients. fixed..
but I dont know which setting ..
then edit your policy settings and go thru the thousands of entries until you see one that relates to that issue an change the setting from off to on.. and then update the policies and push to the clients. fixed..
but I dont know which setting ..
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yup format fat32.. but then you have other problems.. such as it is a little more limited. as FAT32 has less security features, different supported maximum file sizes, not compressible and so on. but a good choice
Can we see a screenshot of the error or blocked out text field? I was not aware that standard users were prevented from this privilege, nor do I believe there is a policy to add the capability. It might be possible through GP Preferences. You have tried right-clicking the drive and setting it in properties, right?