File Server Resource Manager - can users get around it?

osaddictosaddict London, UK
edited May 2008 in Science & Tech
I've had enough of users ignoring my requests not to store mp3s on the company network drives.

A brief bit of research lead me to the File Server Resource Manager, and since we are on sbs2003 premium we can install this optional component and create a file screen, and then define the file groups for screening, and prevent specific file types from being saved.

This sounds great, but I wondered if there are ways users can get round this?

My first thoughts were:
>file.mp3 could be downloaded but they could change it so its downloaded as file.xxx
>they could download files in rar format that were mp3s, or could rar up mp3 files and put them on the network drives

We still have not implemented this optional component as we need to reboot the server to do so, so it will be an out of hours operation, thus I cannot test the file renaming method, but im pretty sure it wont be clever enough to look in rar files?

Does anyone have any experience with this component, and how robust it is?

Comments

  • osaddictosaddict London, UK
    edited May 2008
    OK, so it looksl like renaming a file xxx.txt would probably get around it from what I've read, and that file still plays in winamp!

    So... I guess this isnt going to be fullproof but its better than nothing...
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited May 2008
    Write up a company policy that states you can't store MP3's on the file server, get management to agree and will support any actions against employees that violate it.
  • ShortyShorty Manchester, UK Icrontian
    edited May 2008
    You will need an application that is considerably more granular than that. Which won't be cheap. I would suggest you use the tool to capture the less techie of your staff and the remainder through due dilligence of your server estate.

    Damn users :mad:
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