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by yoram1848

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I run a computer lab in school in which we just installed a wireless connection. I am new to this job and have little networking experience.
My problem is the following; I can connect to my wireless router when i am logged in as an administrator. However, when I log in, on the same computer, as a user I am unable to connect, and get an icon on the task bar of a computer with an "X" through it. When I click on that icon I get an error message stating "network cable is unplugged". When I checked the enable Internet Connection Sharing in Local Area Connection box, an error message "An error occurred.... Internet Sharing cannot be enabled...".
I have uninstalled and reinstalled the driver to no avail.
Could someone please tell me what I need to do to enable a user to be able to connect to the internet.
The OS being used is Windows 2000 Professional.

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by cp7212

It sounds to me as if you have something in your local security policy that only allows admins to connect to your router.

You should consider two things. One, check your local policy. Two, you may want to make a "dummy" account and see if you can log on as a power user.

You could make all of your users local admins, but that may not be such a good idea with kids, as that would give them full control to settings, policies, etc.

You said you have little networking experience...do you know how to setup policies and local user groups? I'll check back.

by mattreeves84

go in and open start ,RUN,,type CMD, then do ipconfig /all, it should show a connetion and start everything up let me know if this works

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