Can IPCONFIG work without admin rights?

I would think that this would be something you're going to have added to some sort of group policy or modifying the users group on the local machine to allow access to that.

Mark

How strange. I have yet to see this problem. Ipconfig should work with any user logged in.

2 questions.

- Do you run Ipconfig through the Dos prompt?

- Did you remove any NTFS rights on the %systemroot\system32 directory? If you did, then users would not have access to this directory. If permissions are required to this directory,
one sure way around this is to create a folder, networked or local, through Ipconfig in the folder, then give everybody NTFS or network rights to this directory.

I've not been able to get it to run logged on as a guest even on a PC that is using FAT16. The only time that I've been able to get it to run is when the user has been added to the Administrators group. Now if one of the 400+ PCs I have that have Windows NT on them gives the user access to IPCONFIG, I am not aware of it.

I'll check to see if there is a group setting that would allow the user to have access to modify the IP address.

I think that your network users aren't members of the local power users group. Try it and it will work.

Hope it help.

Simply put, we want to allow a guest account to be able to release/renew the IP address without giving them the ability to do anything else.

Putting the user into the Power User group is not going to be acceptable either.