User acess to devices

[rouge03]

Hi!

I'm not sure if this is the right forum for this, but the program I wish to create uses mostly functions from the Windows API (I think). So I need sources from tech gurus who know or are more familiar with them =)

I wish to create a program that serves as an interface to enable/disable the use of USB/Firewire based devices. But only the Administrator(user) of the PC can set this. So if the USB/Firewire ports have been disabled for a particular local user(not-Admin), he/she will no longer be able to use them.

So my questions are:
1) Is it possible to deny access to particular media for an ordinary user programmatically? Btw, I'll be using VB6.
2) Which Windows DLL has the function that retrieves user/profile names in a WinXP environment? I tried to research this online.. but i seem to be always finding functions not listed in the API viewer of Visual Studio 6.
2) Can you point me to a good resource for the APIs I'll be needing (online preferred for faster lookup )? I'm just starting to experiment with it. =)

Thanks in advance!

 

[Nagrom]

To answer question 1, I'm not sure. For question 2 - it's been a while since I've done that but I did code for that before so I'll see if I can track down the old code and post it here. In the meantime I actually have a useful answer to the 3rd question (allow me to apologize here for the lack of help with the 1st 2 - I hate replies that don't really answer the question - even if they're mine).

MSDN API info:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...us/winprog/winprog/windows_api_start_page.asp

AllAPI.net:

http://www.allapi.net/apilist/apilist.php

I've found both of those sites to be helpful before (though the best help I've found is a book - Dan Appleman's "Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the Win32 API").

 

[Nagrom]

I can't find my old code, but I think it was the netapi32.dll that has the functionality that you're looking for. If you want to pull a list of users in the Admin group to compare against the current user (which sounds like what you might want here) check out this API information:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...ry/en-us/netmgmt/netmgmt/netgroupgetusers.asp