remote access usb device

[andrewsmart]

Hi

 

As an administrator I can remote access the fixed drives in a machine using

\\\$ and this of course very useful for copying stuff off the machine etc

 

Is there any way to achieve the same thing with usb devices? A couple of times we've had kids with stuff on usb drives where the machine has locked up so things like VNC won't function, and it would be really useful to copy their work off their usb drive before I crash the machine!

[AngryITGuy]

You can achieve this using the psexec tool which is part of the SysInternals Suite.

 

If you havent already got it you can download it here

 

You need to run the following command from dos to launch a command prompt on the remote machine.

 

psexec \\computername cmd

 

Once done you can navigate to the USB device assuming you know the drive letter as if it was connected to the local machine.

[andrewsmart]

Thanks, just what I wanted. I've used psexec but hadn't thought of using it for this.

[jamiesev]

The other way of doing this is to remote manage the computer via MMC, give the usb a new drive letter and then you can access via the start menu, run \\computername\(assigned drive letter)$

 

Simplez!

[box_l]

If you use USBDLM you can make sure that you would always know the drive letter/s

 

BoX