Boot Camp Hard Disk Visible on desktop to users

I am the system admin and have 2 different user account logins. The Hard disk is visible to both users on the desktop and they can open and access the contents. How can I make the drive invisible to the users so they can't mess with it or at least locked. This is a high school lab we're talking about...

If the XP "drive" is FA32, you can change it in Leopard.
Right-click it and select "Get Info"
In the box with the drive name, simply insert a "." in front of the name.
You can also change the name using the terminal
If the XP drive is named XP, for example, in a terminal enter
cd /Volumes
if you then enter
ls
you will see the XP drive. Enter
mv XP .XP
again, replace XP with whatever yours is named.
There is a better way, however, which does not require making the drive invisible:
You can change the permissions on the drive via the terminal, if you are familiar or comfortable with the terminal commands. You can set it so only you can read it.
My permissions are
drwxr-xr-x 1 nerowolfe nerowolfe 12288 Jun 3 12:07 VistaUlt
I believe that if you change it to
drwx------ 1 nerowolfe nerowolfe 12288 Jun 3 12:07 VistaUlt
that will also take care of it.
The default permissions give all users "r" privileges
This reference might be of use:
http://networking.ringofsaturn.com/Unix/unixpermissions.php
Message was edited by: nerowolfe

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