How can I deny viewing the local drive from Internet Explorer?

[Guest]

Is there a method I can use to restrict viewing the local drives of an XP
workstation from Internet Explorer? I don't want a certain segment of users
to have the ability to browse the system32 directory and run commands from
there.

Thanks

 

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

If you restrict access to the Windows\System32 folder for running programs, your users may not be able to do much of anything on the computer.

 

[Guest]

I understand that, but what I want to prevent is the ablity to view the
directory and run the command.com opening up the ability to do other things.

 

[Brandon McCombs]

Is there a method I can use to restrict viewing the local drives of an XP
workstation from Internet Explorer? I don't want a certain segment of users
to have the ability to browse the system32 directory and run commands from
there.

Thanks

if these users are all in the same OU then create a GPO that denies
running the binaries you don't want those users to run. Or you can
modify the permissions on the files but that would be more involved.

 

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

Assign specific permissions to the files in question, not allowing the user to run them.