I see what the problem is. Start is a reg. value, not a key. You can't permission values. You can only permission keys! From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ananth Rajagopal Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 9:59 PM To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [gptalk] Re: Script not applicable for local admin Hi Darren, We had set the script at computer configuration only! anyway we will take a closer look. regards Ananth. On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 9:47 AM, Darren Mar-Elia <darren@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Ananth- The error you're getting is an access denied error. You can't repermission an HKLM reg key like that from a logon script because logon scripts run in the context of the user, who does not have permission to modify reg key permissions by default. Darren From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ananth Rajagopal Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 3:08 AM To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [gptalk] Re: Script not applicable for local admin Hi Ray, Its been a long time, but I have some doubts regarding the USB storage device blocking script. Hope you can help out. We could never implemented the script yet, as there was a policy change and USB devices were allowed for all. Now we are planning to implement and we are in the process testing out policies. And in this regard we have some queries. The script is as follows... Dim WshShell,Retvalue Set WshShell = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell") WshShell.RegWrite "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\USBSTOR\Start",3,"REG_DWORD" Retvalue = WshShell.run ("%comspec% /c %logonserver%\netlogon\xcacls %windir%\inf\usbstor.inf /D everyone /T /Y",0,False) Retvalue = WshShell.run ("%comspec% /c %logonserver%\netlogon\xcacls %windir%\inf\usbstor.pnf /D everyone /T /Y",0,False) \\tai2dserver\SYSVOL\Tai2D.ent\scripts\subinacl.exe" /keyreg \system\currentcontrolset\services\usbstor /deny=system Set WshShell = Nothing Wscript.Quit You had suggested to add the following line to the script, we created a bat file and implemented this. Subinacl.exe was copied to \\Server\sysvol\scripts folder "\\Server\sysvol\scripts\subinacl.exe" /keyreg \system\currentcontrolset\services\usbstor /deny=system Two policies were created one for the usb blocking vbs file and the second one, the batch file to implement the subinacl setting. The two policies were set at the domain level and scope was set for all authenticated users. But now in the test machines at logon we are getting this error. Script : \\Server\sysvol\scripts\usb.vbs Line:3 Char:1 Invalid root in registry key :HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\USBSTOR\Start Code: 8007005 Source:wshscript:regwrite What could be causing it? the script is exactly same as shown above! Please advice!! Thanks and regards Ananth. On 3/10/07, Ray Lewis < razor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:razor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: Anth.. I was faced with this same problem last year.. scripting to set the DWORD value will indeed disable the device, however, if an alternative stick is to be used, this doesn't apply.. Using subinacl, to set the USBSTOR registry permissions to DENY for the SYSTEM "group" should sort out your problem. Download subinacl.exe to a share and add the following line to your existing script: "\\your server\your shared folder\subinacl.exe" /keyreg \system\currentcontrolset\services\usbstor /deny=system My scenario was a little different as I wanted standard users to be denied and for Administrators to be allowed - I controlled this simply via the login scripts. Hope this helps. Ray _____ From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mail <mailto:to:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> to:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ananth Rajagopal Sent: 10 March 2007 14:08 To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [gptalk] Script not applicable for local admin Hi all, I got 3 questions.... 1. we have a script which disables removable usb drive access. but it doesn't work for local admin logon's . how do i make it applicable for them too..basically what the script does is it modifies the USBSTOR value from 3 to 4, thus disabling it, but guys who have local admin rights just opens device manager, removes the usb drives and reinstalls them! thus enabling it! 2. how can i disable device manager access, even if the user has local admin rights? 3. we have a scripts which copies some 10mb of data every time users logs in, even if the files are already in the destination folder it is again copied, how can i make it a incremental or diferential copy? we do this via a batch file. a BIG thanks to all who regularly contribute to this very helpful list!! :-) best regards anth :-)