RE: [info-tech] USB Drives
Bill, Interesting program Faronics anti-executable but seems to have the potential to be severe for the IT guy as far as program maintenance. How has it worked for you as far as problems? Have you had any strange program issues that you could attribute to it? Tony Richardson, Technology Coordinator Humboldt Community School District [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Sometimes I lay awake at night and wonder Just where did I go wrong? Then a voice comes to me and says, Tony, this is going to take more then one night. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Bill Day Sent: Fri 12/8/2006 2:00 PM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: Re: [info-tech] USB Drives Tony, I use Faronics anti-executable on some of our pc's. It lets them use the usb for their data files but won't let them run any exe programs from thumb drive. Bill Day Twin River Valley Richardson,Tony wrote: I'm going to throw this out there in hopes that somebody has a solution... I would like to know how other Tech Coordinators are dealing with USB drives on locked down systems. There are so many different USB thumb drives out there and some will not work on a locked down system because students are not allowed to load software. Any body got a solution??? Thanks, Tony Richardson Technology Coordinator Humboldt Community School District [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by the trv.k12.ia.us server.] --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus on the server aea8.k12.ia.us] - Archived messages from this list can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us/ - winmail.dat
Re: [info-tech] USB Drives
I live under the ever so happy assumption that all my students are morons and could not figure out how to hack their way out of a wet paper sack. Just kidding, but I allow the USB drives. I have locked down the network so that laptops and other devices can no longer connect in. I have no problem with them carrying around their glorified typewriters and walkmans, so when they need to print, many use the USB drive to transfer files to a machine that prints. Plus, I will really worry when they develop a virus for macintosh -- If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside. ~Robert X. Cringely -- Lance L. Lennon District Technology Director Eagle Grove Community School District 515-448-5143
RE: [info-tech] USB Drives
Tony, What are you using the usb drives for. That makes a lot of difference when coming up with a solution. George From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richardson,Tony Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 10:04 AM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: [info-tech] USB Drives I'm going to throw this out there in hopes that somebody has a solution... I would like to know how other Tech Coordinators are dealing with USB drives on locked down systems. There are so many different USB thumb drives out there and some will not work on a locked down system because students are not allowed to load software. Any body got a solution??? Thanks, Tony Richardson Technology Coordinator Humboldt Community School District [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [info-tech] USB Drives
Hi Tony The DOD was having problems with locking down their Laptops and USB drives access. The DOD solution was to super glue the USB ports shut. Thanks! Rex Peterson Computer/Network Technician A+, N+, MCP Prairie Lakes AEA 8 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1235 5th Ave South Fort. Dodge, Ia. 50501 1-515-574-5559 1-800-669-2325 Ext.5559 _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of George Tuttle Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 10:27 AM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: RE: [info-tech] USB Drives Tony, What are you using the usb drives for. That makes a lot of difference when coming up with a solution. George _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richardson,Tony Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 10:04 AM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: [info-tech] USB Drives I'm going to throw this out there in hopes that somebody has a solution. I would like to know how other Tech Coordinators are dealing with USB drives on locked down systems. There are so many different USB thumb drives out there and some will not work on a locked down system because students are not allowed to load software. Any body got a solution??? Thanks, Tony Richardson Technology Coordinator Humboldt Community School District [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [info-tech] USB Drives
Thanks Lance... Are there any PC users out there? We love our viruses by the way... they help us sell software which creates a market, keeps people employed, etc. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lance Lennon Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 10:20 AM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: Re: [info-tech] USB Drives I live under the ever so happy assumption that all my students are morons and could not figure out how to hack their way out of a wet paper sack. Just kidding, but I allow the USB drives. I have locked down the network so that laptops and other devices can no longer connect in. I have no problem with them carrying around their glorified typewriters and walkmans, so when they need to print, many use the USB drive to transfer files to a machine that prints. Plus, I will really worry when they develop a virus for macintosh -- If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside. ~Robert X. Cringely -- Lance L. Lennon District Technology Director Eagle Grove Community School District 515-448-5143
RE: [info-tech] USB Drives
Tony- We have worked to allow generic USB Flash Drives. The district has logo'd flash drives for sale from McDonald Associates, and before we bought a bunch we made sure we would not need to do anything to make them run on XP without problem. Of course, without problem became a problem on machines with either 2 hard drive partitions or 2 optical drives, so we had to work on changing some drive letters around. It wasn't a big problem, but affected a couple of computer labs. We have not done anything to support them on Windows 98 machines. (Yes, we still have those too!!!) Anyway, when students or staff can get them to work, great. When they can't, that is not something we will spend any time trying to fix for them. Jeremy From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richardson,Tony Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 10:04 AM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: [info-tech] USB Drives I'm going to throw this out there in hopes that somebody has a solution... I would like to know how other Tech Coordinators are dealing with USB drives on locked down systems. There are so many different USB thumb drives out there and some will not work on a locked down system because students are not allowed to load software. Any body got a solution??? Thanks, Tony Richardson Technology Coordinator Humboldt Community School District [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [info-tech] USB Drives
We don't lock down our desktops completely but have some restrictions. We just image again if messed up. I do make sure that when creating an image for a system, we create a 2nd partition and assign a drive letter R and make sure our first network drive starts with letter I. This has solved much of the problem. Manson Northwest Webster-Home of the Cougars! Brad Kruse (`-''-/).___..--''`-._ Tech. Coord. `6_ 6 ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) 1601 15th St.(_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' Manson, IA 50563_..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' ,' 712-469-3919 (li),' ((!.-' Fax 712-469-3131 Richardson,Tony [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/8/2006 1:41 PM Student use them to transport Word, Excel, PowerPoint files between home and school. From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of George Tuttle Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 10:27 AM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: RE: [info-tech] USB Drives Tony, What are you using the usb drives for. That makes a lot of difference when coming up with a solution. George From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richardson,Tony Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 10:04 AM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: [info-tech] USB Drives Im going to throw this out there in hopes that somebody has a solution* I would like to know how other Tech Coordinators are dealing with USB drives on locked down systems. There are so many different USB thumb drives out there and some will not work on a locked down system because students are not allowed to load software. Any body got a solution??? Thanks, Tony Richardson Technology Coordinator Humboldt Community School District [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Maybe a problem with student supervision??? We don't allow any students access to computers without supervision. If there is a problem, the teacher is also responsible. Our principals do a good job with that. It seems like sometimes we forget the simple things. Manson Northwest Webster-Home of the Cougars! Brad Kruse (`-''-/).___..--''`-._ Tech. Coord. `6_ 6 ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) 1601 15th St.(_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' Manson, IA 50563_..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' ,' 712-469-3919 (li),' ((!.-' Fax 712-469-3131 JON W HUESER [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/8/2006 1:51 PM We ran into a problem with students bringing in CD's and USB drives and running programs like TIBIA on them. Lightspeed would allow us to kill exe files on those drives, but then the students changed the name of the file so Lightspeed doesn't see it as a exe file. right now to solve the problem we have killed USB, CD and floppies. We are trying to work with lightspeed to solve this issue and I have only a couple of machines that I can see from my desk that I haven't killed the floppy, usb or cd on. Not the best solution but we are working on it. Thanks, Jon W. Hueser Assistant Principal Curriculum/Technology Director East Greene Comm. Schools 405 12th Str. South Box 377 Grand Junction, IA 50107 Phone: 515-738-2411 ext. 241 Fax: 515-738-5719 Website: www.east-greene.k12.ia.us -- Original Message -- From: Richardson,Tony [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 10:04:18 -0600 I'm going to throw this out there in hopes that somebody has a solution... I would like to know how other Tech Coordinators are dealing with USB drives on locked down systems. There are so many different USB thumb drives out there and some will not work on a locked down system because students are not allowed to load software. Any body got a solution??? Thanks, Tony Richardson Technology Coordinator Humboldt Community School District [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent via the WebMail system at eg-main.east-greene.k12.ia.us [This E-mail scanned for viruses by the East Greene TTC System] --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus on the server aea8.k12.ia.us] - Archived messages from this list can be found at: http://www.mail ( http://www.mail/ )-archive.com/info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us/ -
Re: [info-tech] USB Drives
Tony, I use Faronics anti-executable on some of our pc's. It lets them use the usb for their data files but won't let them run any exe programs from thumb drive. Bill Day Twin River Valley Richardson,Tony wrote: I’m going to throw this out there in hopes that somebody has a solution… I would like to know how other Tech Coordinators are dealing with USB drives on locked down systems. There are so many different USB thumb drives out there and some will not work on a locked down system because students are not allowed to load software. Any body got a solution??? Thanks, Tony Richardson Technology Coordinator Humboldt Community School District [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by the trv.k12.ia.us server.] --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus on the server aea8.k12.ia.us] - Archived messages from this list can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us/ -
RE: [info-tech] USB Drives
Here in the wild wild West, USB's run amuck on the network. Thanks to Sansa drives preloading skype (blocked at the router) and other programs running (I think it's called U3), it's tempting to find a sale on super glue and visit all 170 tablets. I really don't have an answer, Active Directory could work in some cases, but that interferes with the concept of ubiquitous computing. We've been slowly beefing up the internal reporting with features in snort and other open source material, but haven't discovered the cure. Murray Gafkjen Home of the hacking MaVeRiCks Have a good day -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Day Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 2:00 PM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: Re: [info-tech] USB Drives Tony, I use Faronics anti-executable on some of our pc's. It lets them use the usb for their data files but won't let them run any exe programs from thumb drive. Bill Day Twin River Valley Richardson,Tony wrote: I'm going to throw this out there in hopes that somebody has a solution. I would like to know how other Tech Coordinators are dealing with USB drives on locked down systems. There are so many different USB thumb drives out there and some will not work on a locked down system because students are not allowed to load software. Any body got a solution??? Thanks, Tony Richardson Technology Coordinator Humboldt Community School District [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by the trv.k12.ia.us server.] --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus on the server aea8.k12.ia.us] - Archived messages from this list can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us/ - --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus on the server aea8.k12.ia.us] - Archived messages from this list can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us/ -
