Truecrypt Container Mode

[Arthur]

You know what, after all that I think it was actually my autorun.inf which was the problem! I copied your one, Arthur, from the other post and this worked fine. I had used "shell\verb" and yours uses "shell\Item1".

I'm glad to hear you got it working. The strange thing is, "shell\verb" should have been fine because the "verb" part can be any text you want according to Microsoft, as long as it doesn't contain a space.

Just my handful of Mac users now. Do you think you could create me a copy of that script you posted earlier if I gave you the details needed?

Sure, no problem. I'll give it a go. All I need is the path to the TrueCrypt container file and the volume label you have given to your USB flash drive (which must be 11 characters or less).

[enjay]

Sure, no problem. I'll give it a go. All I need is the path to the TrueCrypt container file and the volume label you have given to your USB flash drive (which must be 11 characters or less).

Thank you! The container file can be called something like "encrypted"; volume label will be harder though, as they are called all sorts of things - in fact, we encourage people to rename their drives to their own names, so we can easily return lost drives without having to read the contents. Is there any way around using this?

[Arthur]

volume label will be harder though, as they are called all sorts of things - in fact, we encourage people to rename their drives to their own names, so we can easily return lost drives without having to read the contents. Is there any way around using this?

There might be, although I'm not sure how at the moment. Perhaps this?

The AppleScript in post #51 relies on a static volume label in order to be able to find the flash drive.

[enjay]

That is a seriously cool little application! Not sure if it would meet the need here or not...

[joe90bass]

Hi guys! I'm trying to follow through this thread and pull together the various scripts to enable our staff to easily use Truecrypt on USB drives on our school PCs and at home. I like the right click options,and it worked great on XP, but as above I'm struggling with Vista/7. Is it possible to get one script/inf to cover both scenarios? And what was needed altogether to get it working

Cheers!

[Arthur]

A new version of TrueCrypt was released today which has a feature which might prove useful...

Volumes can now be configured to automatically mount whenever the host device gets connected to a computer system.

For example, if you have a TrueCrypt container on a USB flash drive and you want to configure TrueCrypt to mount it automatically whenever you insert the USB flash drive into the USB port, follow these steps: 1. Mount the volume. 2. Right-click the mounted volume in the drive list in the main TrueCrypt window and select ‘Add to Favorites’. 3. The Favorites Organizer window should appear. In it, enable the option ‘Mount selected volume when its host device gets connected’ and click OK. (Source)

More details here.

[joe90bass]

Must say I didn't look to closely at the new release as we've started deploying 6.3a already... Wonder if it's just a case of extracting the msi from version 7 and a straightforward upgrade via gpo? The good news is nobody is actually using it yet, and there's been no training or documentaiton given out yet! So version 7 sounds like a job for tomorrow!

[joe90bass]

Creating an msi looks like one tricky task, I don't fancy manual install on all teacher PC/laptops

[Arthur]

If I have a bit of spare time this week or next, I should be able to update my TrueCrypt MSI to v7.0. If I do, I'll post a link to it in this thread.

[joe90bass]

That would be much appreciated! I'm trying to create one now, never done it before though! I'll post back how I get on

edit: My latest attempt doesn't seem to install shortcuts for users, or recognise tc file associations....

[enjay]

Has anyone got an MSI - preferably the driver-only one, but I'll take anything - for v7?

You need 7 in order to use it on Win7, and v6.3 can't open v7 containers. I tried installing v7 normally, but get the usual "you must be an administrator" messages when using Traveller Mode as a teacher.

[AlexB]

Did a 7.x msi ever surface?

[soapyfish]

Is anything in the works, a driver only version for Windows 7 and XP would be the most awesome thing

[Arthur]

Would anyone mind testing the TrueCrypt v7.0a MSI I have created?

Download: TrueCrypt v7.0.1 (x86).msi

I'm still working on a 64-bit MSI and will post a link in due course. Need to make sure this one works first.

[soapyfish]

Hi Arthur,

I can test it today maybe, if things stay calm-ish thanks for the download