Filter PnP Manager

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1

Hi,

Is it possible to attach or filter PnP Manager?
How can I do that?

Thank You!

cheers,
vincent

2

vincent wrote:

Is it possible to attach or filter PnP Manager?

No. What are you really trying to do that led you to this pretty outré
idea?

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3

Hi,

I want to filter the point when I connect any removable devices such as
PCMCIA removable devices, usb devices (floppy, hard disk, thumb drive etc),
firewire devices (hard disk, cdrw/cdrom/dvd etc).

Or how can I filter all the removable devices from a single point?

Thank You!

cheers,
vincent

From: Walter Oney
>Reply-To: “NT Developers Interest List”
>To: “NT Developers Interest List”
>Subject: [ntdev] Re: Filter PnP Manager
>Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 08:12:47 -0400
>
>vincent wrote:
> > Is it possible to attach or filter PnP Manager?
>
>No. What are you really trying to do that led you to this pretty outré
>idea?
>
>–
>Walter Oney, Consulting and Training
>Basic and Advanced Driver Programming Seminars
>Check out our schedule at http://www.oneysoft.com
>
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4

vincent gambit wrote:

I want to filter the point when I connect any removable devices such as
PCMCIA removable devices, usb devices (floppy, hard disk, thumb drive etc),
firewire devices (hard disk, cdrw/cdrom/dvd etc).

Or how can I filter all the removable devices from a single point?

You can’t do it. I repeat, *why* are you trying to do this. All you’ve
said is that you want to, and you repeated that when I asked why.

–
Walter Oney, Consulting and Training
Basic and Advanced Driver Programming Seminars
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5

Hi,

I want to filter all removable devices irregardless of their type of
connection.
Currently I tried to filter at the disk level and I am able to filter USB
removable devices such as thumb drive, USB hard disk, USB floppy driver.
However I am not able to filter USB cdrom/cdrw drive (since it is a
FILE_DEVICE_CDROM n not FILE_DEVICE_DISK) and i am unable to differentiate
betw a USB hard disk and IDE hard disk as the USB hard disk once connected
does not reflect as removable media so I can’t determine it using the device
characteristic.

So I thought by filtering the PnP Manager I can filter all removable
devices.

So how can I filter all removable devices?
So that I can control which removable devices I want to allow to have
read/write access.

Thank You!

cheers,
vincent

From: Walter Oney
>Reply-To: “NT Developers Interest List”
>To: “NT Developers Interest List”
>Subject: [ntdev] Re: Filter PnP Manager
>Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 15:39:37 -0400
>
>vincent gambit wrote:
> > I want to filter the point when I connect any removable devices such as
> > PCMCIA removable devices, usb devices (floppy, hard disk, thumb drive
>etc),
> > firewire devices (hard disk, cdrw/cdrom/dvd etc).
> >
> > Or how can I filter all the removable devices from a single point?
>
>You can’t do it. I repeat, why are you trying to do this. All you’ve
>said is that you want to, and you repeated that when I asked why.
>
>–
>Walter Oney, Consulting and Training
>Basic and Advanced Driver Programming Seminars
>Check out our schedule at http://www.oneysoft.com
>
>—
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6

You seem to have two concepts confused. All the USB hard disks I have
seen are “removable drives” and NOT “removable media”. Floppies have
removable media and USB floppies are also removable drives.

So how can I filter all removable devices?

Scanners connected to USB or 1394 are removable devices. So are
printers connected to parallel, USB, and even the network. From the
rest of your question I hope you don’t mean “removable devices” but
“removable drives”. Look at the FILE_* type of the various devices you
want to filter and then the answer becomes easier - not easy, though.

I think the problem needs to be stated with more completeness.

You might have a big enough plan that the only solution would be to have
the source code to the OS.

----- Original Message -----
From: “vincent gambit”
To: “NT Developers Interest List”
Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 9:25 PM
Subject: [ntdev] Re: Filter PnP Manager

> Hi,
>
> I want to filter all removable devices irregardless of their type of
> connection.
> Currently I tried to filter at the disk level and I am able to filter
USB
> removable devices such as thumb drive, USB hard disk, USB floppy
driver.
> However I am not able to filter USB cdrom/cdrw drive (since it is a
> FILE_DEVICE_CDROM n not FILE_DEVICE_DISK) and i am unable to
differentiate
> betw a USB hard disk and IDE hard disk as the USB hard disk once
connected
> does not reflect as removable media so I can’t determine it using the
device
> characteristic.
>
> So I thought by filtering the PnP Manager I can filter all removable
> devices.
>
> So how can I filter all removable devices?
> So that I can control which removable devices I want to allow to have
> read/write access.
>
> Thank You!
>
> cheers,
> vincent
>
>
>
>
> >From: Walter Oney
> >Reply-To: “NT Developers Interest List”
> >To: “NT Developers Interest List”
> >Subject: [ntdev] Re: Filter PnP Manager
> >Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 15:39:37 -0400
> >
> >vincent gambit wrote:
> > > I want to filter the point when I connect any removable devices
such as
> > > PCMCIA removable devices, usb devices (floppy, hard disk, thumb
drive
> >etc),
> > > firewire devices (hard disk, cdrw/cdrom/dvd etc).
> > >
> > > Or how can I filter all the removable devices from a single point?
> >
> >You can’t do it. I repeat, why are you trying to do this. All
you’ve
> >said is that you want to, and you repeated that when I asked why.
> >
> >–
> >Walter Oney, Consulting and Training
> >Basic and Advanced Driver Programming Seminars
> >Check out our schedule at http://www.oneysoft.com
> >
> >—
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7

I give up. I asked “why” twice, and you said “I want to do it because I
want to do it.”

vincent gambit wrote:

Hi,

I want to filter all removable devices irregardless of their type of
connection.
Currently I tried to filter at the disk level and I am able to filter USB
removable devices such as thumb drive, USB hard disk, USB floppy driver.
However I am not able to filter USB cdrom/cdrw drive (since it is a
FILE_DEVICE_CDROM n not FILE_DEVICE_DISK) and i am unable to differentiate
betw a USB hard disk and IDE hard disk as the USB hard disk once connected
does not reflect as removable media so I can’t determine it using the device
characteristic.

So I thought by filtering the PnP Manager I can filter all removable
devices.

So how can I filter all removable devices?
So that I can control which removable devices I want to allow to have
read/write access.

Thank You!

cheers,
vincent

>From: Walter Oney
> >Reply-To: “NT Developers Interest List”
> >To: “NT Developers Interest List”
> >Subject: [ntdev] Re: Filter PnP Manager
> >Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 15:39:37 -0400
> >
> >vincent gambit wrote:
> > > I want to filter the point when I connect any removable devices such as
> > > PCMCIA removable devices, usb devices (floppy, hard disk, thumb drive
> >etc),
> > > firewire devices (hard disk, cdrw/cdrom/dvd etc).
> > >
> > > Or how can I filter all the removable devices from a single point?
> >
> >You can’t do it. I repeat, why are you trying to do this. All you’ve
> >said is that you want to, and you repeated that when I asked why.
> >
> >–
> >Walter Oney, Consulting and Training
> >Basic and Advanced Driver Programming Seminars
> >Check out our schedule at http://www.oneysoft.com
> >
> >—
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>
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