
DeviceLock: readme
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Please read this file carefully (especially the "Installation" chapter)
before installing the program to your computer.

IMPORTANT! If you obtained DeviceLock not from our web page, but from another
source (CD or a software library), please visit our home page where you
might find a later version.


Contents
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 Program information
 Company information
 Description
 Installation (!)
 Registration
 Copyright and license
 Technical support


Program information
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Program Archive Name:
 dlbeta.zip
Program Name:
 DeviceLock
Program Version:
 5.01
Program Release Date:
 Oct 29, 2001
Target OS:
 Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP
Program Description:
 An administrative tool to separate access to devices.
Software type:
 30-day trial


Company information
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Company Name:
  SmartLine Inc.
Author Name:
  Ashot Oganesyan K.
Contact E-mail Address:
  support@protect-me.com
  sales@protect-me.com
Contact WWW URL:
  http://www.ntutility.com


Description
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DeviceLock gives network administrators control over which users can
access what devices (floppies, serial and parallel ports, Magneto-Optical
disks, CD-ROMs, ZIPs, etc.) on a local computer. Once DeviceLock is installed,
administrators can control access to floppies, CD-ROMs or any other device,
depending on the time of day and day of the week. DeviceLock enhances access
control for Windows System Administrators and helps control removable disk
usage. It can protect network and local computers against viruses, trojans
and other malicious programs often injected from removable disks. Network
administrators can also use DeviceLock to flush a storage device's buffers.
Remote control is also available.

With DeviceLock you can:

 - Control which users or groups can access devices 

 - Control access to devices depending on the time of day and day of the week

 - Protect disks from accidental or intentional formatting

 - Flush unsaved file buffers (very useful for removable media)

 - Control all functions remotely 

 - Install and uninstall it automatically 


Installation
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To install DeviceLock you MUST have administrative privileges.

Run "setup.exe". You'll need to select the target directory for the install.

If you install DeviceLock on an NTFS partition, Setup protects DeviceLock's
directory and files by allowing only members of the Administrators group or
the SYSTEM account to access DeviceLock's files or to uninstall DeviceLock.

If you wish to install DeviceLock without an user intervention you should run
DeviceLock Setup with the /s parameter (e.g. "c:\setup.exe /s"). This gives an
install that can be used from within a batch file. There is a special
configuration file for silent setup: devicelock.ini. With this file, you can
customize the DeviceLock installation parameters. For example:

 1. "Lock Devices" parameters. Only members of the special local group,
    the operating system and the local administrators will have access to
    the devices on the local computer if one of these parameters is enabled:

      Floppy    - floppy drive
      Removable - removable device
      CDROM     - CD-ROM
      RamDisk   - virtual (RAM) disk
      Serial    - serial port (COM)
      Parallel  - parallel port (LPT)
      Tape      - tape device

    If the parameter CreateGroups is enabled another special local group
    will be automatically created:

      Allow_Access_to_Floppy
      Allow_Access_to_Removable
      Allow_Access_to_CDRom
      Allow_Access_to_RamDisk
      Allow_Access_to_Serial
      Allow_Access_to_Parallel
      Allow_Access_to_Tape

    Otherwise if a group does not exist on the local computer, only the
    operating system and the local administrators will have access to the
    device.

 2. "Install" parameters:

      Service    - DeviceLock Service and its related files will be installed
      Manager    - DeviceLock Manager and its related files will be installed
      Documents  - documentation (DeviceLock Manual.pdf) will be installed

    To specify a destination directory for DeviceLock, you can supply
    the parameter InstallDir

    If you have the registration key-file for DeviceLock, you can specify
    a directory with this file in the parameter RegFileDir


 3. "Misc" parameters:

      Run - this parameter is used to launch an application or execute a batch
            file after a successful install.


Registration
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See "register.txt" file.


Copyright and license
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See "license.txt" file.


Technical support
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See "contacts.txt" file.





                                         Copyright(c) 1997-2001 SmartLine Inc.
                                                          All rights reserved.
                                     DeviceLock is trademark of SmartLine Inc. 
