I am working on someone's XP Pro SP2 Box, and I cannot change the properties of any network connection. When I right click on the connection and click properties is says "Do not have sufficient privileges, contact your administrator"
I am the Administrator, logged in as the administrator account, and the machine is not on a domain.
Any Ideas what setting could cause this, and where it is?
I wasnt even aware you could lock administrator out...
I fixed my own problem on this one, thought I should post the solution, since it was pretty hard to find:
It turns out winxp uses your COM settings to configure access to network properties.
You have to change the component services "default impersonation level" to "Identify" Somehow it got change:up: d to anonymous and that prevented me from changing network properties as Administrator.
Log in as Administrator, go to:
control panel -> Administrative tools ->component services -Computers
right click on "My Computer" and hit properties
On the Default Properties tab, make sure "default impersonation level" is set to "Identify"
Hit apply, even though it said I did not have permission to change the setting, the setting changed, and the problem was solved (Bizarre)
Odd as in its stupid for Microsoft to control it that way LOL.... Complication through Obfiscation...
I found that answer on MSDN KB, it is aparently intended behavior - Go figure... You can study Windows for a lifetime, and there will always be something you didnt know
I hope that post helps someone, If I didnt run into it, I was gonna put 50 pieces of spyware / antivirus on my comp... that wouldnt have been cool
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