Enable Open Network Connections for Power Users

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sallystruthers

Hi.
We recently moved our domain users from the administrators group to the
power users group on their WinXP Pro SP1 laptops. We are running AD on
a 2003 server domain.
We gave them the ability to enable/disable LAN connections via group
policies which they can do by double clicking a shortcut to the
connection or right-clicking on the systray icon.
The problem is that now the control panel shortcut to Network
Connections is not allowed to be run. Right-clicking the systray LAN
icons and selecting "open network connections" also returns a
permissions error message. I can't find anything in the GPO's that can
enable Network Connections for Power Users.

Modifying the security for ncpa.cpl does nothing.

Does anyone have any suggestions?
Many thanks.
 
Hi,

I can't find anything in the GPO's that can
enable Network Connections for Power Users.
Click to expand...

Remove them from the Power Users group and put them into the
networkconfiguration-operators, which is local group on XP.

Mark
 
I was hoping to be able to modify Power Users to be able to run
ncpa.cpl.
Removing users from Power users and adding them to network config group
works.

Thanks.
 
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