Driver Install, disable local logon option

[KipKup]

Hi there, first explanation of my situation

Have a few 2003 standard edition servers running domain controllers RIS and what ever.

Software deployment through group policies.

Now for the past few weeks students have enjoyed to change the logon options at the logon screen so the "local machine name" is selected instead of the domain. Is it possible to remove the drop down box, or remove the local machine name? Yes the local administrator account is disabled, but people change it to annoy the other people, so they can't login.

(We are running Windows XP).

Further more, we have a few Sony MiniDV cameras, but they want to be able to attach those cameras to all computers at the school.

Link to driver: ftp://ftp.vaio-link.com/PUB/DIME/cams/usbdrven.exe

Clients are still running windows XP

I have been trying to install them silent, extracting drivers. Install with Microsofts "Driver Installation Tools 2.01"

Still haven't been able to find a working solution, would like to be able to either install them directly with the RIS server, or by group policy somehow.

Any Ideas?

At last I just wanna say thanks to all the people who wrote guides etc. have been helping me a lot earlyer.

KipKup

[InTheWayBoy]

In regards to the driver issue, if you can extract it to where it's the bare files then you should be able to copy them over to the %WINDIR%\INF folder, which would allow windows to find the driver easily whenever the camera is plugged in.

However, upon further investigation it doesn't look like that's an option...however, it does have an iss script that might be able to be customized. I've never done it myself, but I see that a lot in the Application Installs forum. You might wanna peak in there and see what you can find.

And as a final tip, someone recently created a universal extractor that might be able to pull the driver files out of the setup files. I don't have a link handy, but I believe I saw it on either the Application Installs or the Unattended Installs forums.

I have a Sony Memory Stick Reader that has a similar setup and I just gave up...they don't like to make it easy for us for some reason! Good luck!

[KipKup]

Thanks a lot for taking your time to answer, well I am able to extract the driver using i6comp.exe (perhaps you can use that for your device, makes it possible to extract the data .cab files)

Makes me able to get all the driver files, and I am able to place them in the inf folder, that installs the driver, but since it is a plug and play device it will request administrator acces when it is plugged in to install the cam. (at least the ways I tried).

If I run a silent install the driver gets install but still asks for a few next's when the device is plugged in, and I forgot to mention that my users is "Domain Users" and nothing else.

So they don't have the rights to install anything.