Security Policy for Network Adapters?

[Kevin]

As far as I can tell the only user that can have privileges to make changes
to the properties of a network adapter is an administrator.

Is there a security policy setting that I can set to allow, say a power
user, to change the settings in the properties of a network adapter?

Its an odd request but we have field services techs that need to change the
Media Type from Full-Duplex to half-duplex and back again. Its a long story
but they connect into radios of different types etc.

They are currently set as local administrators, but I am not happy with this
for obvious reasons.

Thanks

 

[Colin Nash [MVP]]

As far as I can tell the only user that can have privileges to make
changes to the properties of a network adapter is an administrator.

Is there a security policy setting that I can set to allow, say a power
user, to change the settings in the properties of a network adapter?

Its an odd request but we have field services techs that need to change
the Media Type from Full-Duplex to half-duplex and back again. Its a long
story but they connect into radios of different types etc.

They are currently set as local administrators, but I am not happy with
this for obvious reasons.

Thanks

On XP Pro, there is a group called "Network Configuration Operators." I'm
not sure if this group can do it, but try it out.

Description of this group:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;297938

 

[Kevin]

On XP Pro, there is a group called "Network Configuration Operators." I'm
not sure if this group can do it, but try it out.

Description of this group:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;297938

Yeah, tried that on elaready. Unfortuantely the group does not cover what I
need.