Martin Jelovsek Posted June 10, 2015 Report Share Posted June 10, 2015 Hi guys, on couple of our machines I need to disable mounting of external drives (USB and FireWire). I tried to unload and then delete the .kext files in System/Library but no avail ... After reboot I can still connect and see the external drives. Does anyone here have any idea what else to try? Regards Martin Jelovsek Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soundchris Posted June 10, 2015 Report Share Posted June 10, 2015 have a look at this: http://www.quora.com/How-can-I-disable-automount-on-a-specific-external-USB-disk-in-Mac-OS-X Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Jelovsek Posted June 10, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 10, 2015 have a look at this: http://www.quora.com/How-can-I-disable-automount-on-a-specific-external-USB-disk-in-Mac-OS-X Hey soundcris, thank you for the idea but the problem is I would like to disable all the USB disks connected to the computer ... Regards Martin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Wexler Posted June 10, 2015 Report Share Posted June 10, 2015 Curious, if I could ask why you want to do this? Is it a security issue? What you are proposing to do seems like it would require real hacking into the operating system to prevent the OS from performing one of its primary functions of mounting external media. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Jelovsek Posted June 10, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 10, 2015 Hi Jeff, well it is demand from one of the clients that we have to have this disabled (as you guessed it is security issue) ... I know I can disable external drives with Open directory server, but then I have a problem that I cannot connect to our local Raid disks (they are connected via network) ... It is this stupid frustrating situation, for which I am trying to find solution but no avail Martin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soundchris Posted June 11, 2015 Report Share Posted June 11, 2015 Have a look at DiskArbitrator: https://github.com/aburgh/Disk-Arbitrator Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soundchris Posted July 2, 2015 Report Share Posted July 2, 2015 (edited) ... It is this stupid frustrating situation, for which I am trying to find solution but no avail Martin Hi Martin, have you tried DiskArbitrator yet? Edited July 3, 2015 by soundchris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamon Posted July 3, 2015 Report Share Posted July 3, 2015 Or another approach: With Apimac Secret Folder, you can make disks visible or hidden from the Finder, protected by a password. So they'll still mount but aren't visible.. http://www.apimac.com/mac/secretfolder/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Jelovsek Posted July 6, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 6, 2015 @soundchris I will do the tests next week as I got couple of projects and right now I do not have time for this. I will post the results Martin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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