One Administrator account unable to access Network settings

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I have configured a Windows 2000 Professional system for
my wife and children's use. It was my first attempt to
implement Group Policies and I went somewhat overboard.

I gave my 19 year-old son an Administrator account
separately from his own user account. He is the most
computer-literate among the kids and my wife.

This evening, I used his Administrator account to edit the
Group Policy settings less restrictive for access to
network settings. Now the regular Administrator account
and my own Administrator account can access Network
settings and modify them but his cannot. The error message
is that he is denied permission to open the folder.

He is good-humoured enough to take his "second-class
Admin" privileges as a joke, but I am puzzled by the
anomaly.
 
When you configure Group Policy on a workgroup computer by default the settings apply
to all users unless you or he changed ntfs permissions to the \winnt\system32\group
policy folder or such. If you have not done that, I would double check that his
account is still an administrator account. You can use "net user username" at the
commandline to see quickly what groups a user is in. --- Steve
 
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