Steven said:
There are no permissions for network adapters use which leads me
to believe it is a configuration issue of some sort. Log on as
the regular user and view the configuration [wireless properties
such as network ID, channel, wep key, etc.] of the nic to see
that it matches when you are logged on. You may need to
temporarily add the other user account to the local
administrators group to do any changes. --- Steve
Which is what I've finally had to do. But I don't like having
teenage boys with Admin priviliges on my home/home-office network.
They have the brains of weasels.
I wish it was as simple as the config of the wireless NIC, as you
suggest, but there's no diff to the settings as a function of who's
logged on. On the machine with the D-Link NIC, you even get an
error after logging on, something like "WMON Error" while all the
system tray apps are loading.
You know, I wonder if this has something to do with the fact that
both machines were previously Win98 boxes, and were running
wireless NICs before I did the w2k clean install. I am not a w2k
wizard, but I notice that even the "clean install" option retains
some old setting: users (sort of), etc., from the 98 setup.
Question: if a fellow has a computer on the desk over there, and a
Win2k Pro CD in his hand, what would be his most efective way to
wipe the hard drive and do a really clean install -- so none of the
w2k or w98 stuff was carried over? I would like to reformat the
hard drive, but I don't know what it would take, boot-floppy-wise
to start the w2k install. Could someone point me to a Guide For
Dummies?
-- Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
"Mike Rocket J. Squirrel Elliott"
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But I want my Standard Users to be able to access the network,
i.e., the Internet, etc., when logged on. I can do it while
logged on as Administrator. If I log off as Administrator then
log on as a Standard user, the NIC becomes inactive, I can't
ping the router, etc. Log back on as Administrator, and bingo
-- I can access the Internet again.
How can I tell Win2k to let standard and other non-Admin users
use the NIC? Or do I have to give make all users administrators
to let them access the Internet through the NIC? This doesn't
make sense.
-- Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
Steven L Umbach wrote:
One network configuration is set up correctly by an
administrator,
regular users have
no reason to access network connection properties as the
network card
configuration
will be the same no matter who is logged on. --- Steve
"Mike Rocket J. Squirrel Elliott"
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I *am* the administrator. I need a hint on how to manage
network connections so that Standard users can use the NIC
to access the network. Can't seem to find the controls.
-- Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
Steven Umbach wrote:
In Windows 2000 you must be an administrator to manage
network
connections.
Windows XP has a new network configuration users group
that will allow
regular
users to manage most network configuration. --- Steve
"Mike Rocket J. Squirrel Elliott"
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I have two boxes with clean installs of w2k. One has a
D-Link wireless NIC, the other a Linksys wireless NIC.
On both machines, only users
with
Administrator permissions can access the NIC's --
others, like
Standard
users, cannot -- the NIC's are offline. I'm the amateur
administrator
of
this home network, but can't figure out how to give the
kids (Standard users) permission to access the NICs.
D-Link and Linksys would not
offer
help, stating that this was an O/S issue. Yet I can't
find any information on setting permissions for network
adapters anywhere.
-- Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
