internet connection wizard won't save settings

[jmarke]

I'm having a problem setting up a workstation on our network using Windows 2K. When setting up our proxy server through the connection wizard, all goes fine. However, upon a reboot, it seems to lose all the settings and makes you go back through it again. (Not for the admin, only for users) Any ideas out there?

 

[hchman]

Set up a local user account and give them power user rights. This will allow you to save the settings.

 

[jmarke]

I've set them up on the machine domain as a power user, and as long as they log in to the local domain, it saves all settings. However, when logging onto our network domain, it's still the same story, the machine will not save the previous settings.....This is a new pc running win2k service pack 3, with a promise ide raid controller running 2 80 gig mirrored drives. I've never had this problem on other machines I've set up with 2000. Thanks for any help...

 

[pbxman]

if it works for admin and not users - it's a permission issue. What do you mean by "local domain" vs. your "network domain"? Do you have group policy or mandatory profiles or anything?
Try making the user a local admin and see if that works. Don't forget to remove it though pbxman
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[jmarke]

Alright! It's working now. I had to give the user administrator rights on the domain, log in, and then take the rights away. I don't understand why, but it worked. All other normal users that I would log onto this machine acted normally. Thanks for all the great assistance.

 

[pbxman]

It comes down to being able to write to certain parts of the registry and modify certain protected files. Power Users only go so far before administrator needs access to make the change, then users can then read from that file again without being able to make changes.
Glad it worked!
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[Wirdo]

In the future the easyest way to fix this is to add the user domain account to the local administrator group. You can do this either with the Computer Managment snap-in on the local machine. Or on the server find the PC in Active Directory and right-click select manage. This will let you remotly config the Snap-in. Also this will not give them domain admin rights but will give them local admin rights.