Security Policy for Network Adapters?

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Guys this question was asked previously by Kevin below, but never resolved.
I too am needing to figure out the same problem.
I have to have all users statically set for Speed and Duplex when on my
network.
When the laptop users leave the office and try an connect @ home or in a
hotel or something, because they are regular users and not admins, they do
not have the option to change their speed and Duplex.

i am looking for a local or Group Policy that can be enabled to allow access
to these controls. The reponse below ""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."" does not solve this issue. I added the users individually
and also added all domain users to this local group. User could still not
access these settings.

Without making these people admins how can I allow the ability to change
speed and duplex on their nics..

Thx






Colin Nash said:
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
Click to expand...


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

I had the same problem at my home. I just made the user that needed to
tweek the network settings members of the Network Configuration Operators
now they can repair the connection which is what I was having a problem
with, but I beleive them being members of this group will allow them to
change the duplex settings also

HTH
Brian
 
Tried this didn't work. I have been told under another post that the answer
is this...

Best solution for multiple hardware configurations for laptops users is
multple hardware profiles. You can create an "Office" one with the NIC set
to 100 and then create an "Out of Office" and set the NIC to auto detect.

Then I asked

So you are saying their is no policy to set that you know of?


And got a reply of

Policies control software not hardware configuration. The suggested way is
the most accepted way.
 
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