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by keith at anw

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I have a Win XP computer with a DSL connection. For security reasons, I unplug the phone line when no one is on-line. The problem is that my non-admin accounts cannot reconnect to the Internet by simply plugging in the phone line. The admin account can stop & restart DHCP in order to reconnect, but the non-admin accounts do not have access to the Services plug-in. How can I give them access without granting them admin rights?

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by cg it

whoa wait a minute. you unplug the phone line? sheesh invest $60.00 USD and get a router. Turn on the routers firewall protection and block WAN PING, IGMP ICMP PPTP. if your paranoid install a firewall on the computer itself. Then just turn OFF the computer. If you Unplug the phone you lose the connection and resulting IP address assigned by the ISP DHCP server [most phone company TTL is really short like 4 hours due to how many clients they got. A router keeps that TTL renewing itself as there is an active connection].

by cg it

then users can just power up and have at it.
I can't see how non admin users have a connection problem when they log on and plug in the phone line but heck stranger things happen.

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