Body: Yes of course I have accidentally disabled LAN conncetion while being conected to remote server.
An I decided to prevent any further stupid move like this. How? Easy, just change two settings in GPO for AD or Local Policy for Workgroup:
- In GPEDIT, go to User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Network -> Network Connections.
- Change "Ability to Enable/Disable a LAN connection" to Disabled
- Change "Enable Windows 2000 Network Connections settings for Administrators" to enabled. Enabling this policy enforces the restrictions, even for Administrators, in Windows XP
Of course in AD environment you can do this with GPO, and deploy it to your Server environment. But if you realy need option to disable network connection, from local logon, you can disable and enable network adapter from Device Manager.
Be smart, not dumb like me.
Category: Windows Server
Published: 8.8.2008 19:41