Doug
Wed May 24 20:16:08 CDT 2006
You're welcome. I know there's a restriction in Group Policies to make =
the proxy server setting per machine, not per user, but I believe you =
have to set the actual proxy address manually, or possibly via the IEAK =
(Internet Explorer Administration Kit).
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Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows Media Center\Windows Powered Smart =
Display\Security
Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes
http://www.dougknox.com
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Per user Group Policy Restrictions for XP Home and XP Pro
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_securityconsole.htm
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"Brad Pears" <donotreply@notreal.com> wrote in message =
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> You are a genious!! That is exactly what it was and I didn't even =
think to=20
> look there at all!!! Maybe someone had been screwing around on that=20
> machine. Guess I better tighten up the group policy!!
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> Thanks again!
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> Brad
> "Doug Knox MS-MVP" <dknox@mvps.org> wrote in message=20
> news:%23amkab2fGHA.1272@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> It almost sounds like there's a proxy set up on a per-user basis. =
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> logged on as that user, open Internet Options, Connections, LAN =
Settings and=20
> see if there is a specific proxy server configured.
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> Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows Media Center\Windows Powered Smart=20
> Display\Security
> Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes
>
http://www.dougknox.com
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> Per user Group Policy Restrictions for XP Home and XP Pro
>
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_securityconsole.htm
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> Please reply only to the newsgroup so all may benefit.
> Unsolicited e-mail is not answered.
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> "Brad Pears" <donotreply@notreal.com> wrote in message=20
> news:uchKsD2fGHA.4892@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> We have a strange issue with a particular XP pro SP2 machine in our=20
>> domain.
>>
>> If I log onto this machine as the local administrator, I can access =
the
>> internet no problems. The user who sits at this machine was unable to =
>> access
>> the internet until I gave her local admin privs on this machine - not =
even
>> the power users group did the trick. Another user who sits at this =
machine
>> in the evenings was also unable to access the internet using her =
domain
>> logon. When I gave her domain account local admin rights on that =
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>> (as
>> I had done for the previous user I mentioned) I expected that would =
solve
>> the problem. NOPE!! She still is unable to access the internet - =
simply
>> gets a "page unable to be displayed" for any site she attempts to =
visit!
>>
>> I tried pinging some sites and that worked just fine so traffic is =
getting
>> through - maybe port 80 is somehow being blocked? I turned off the=20
>> firewall
>> just in case - and that still did not fix the issue. The strange =
thing is
>> that this user can log onto other machines and access the internet so =
it
>> must be somehow related to something on that PC - I just do not know =
where
>> to look next...
>>
>> Has anyone got any suggestions on trouble shooting this issue?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Brad
>>
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