Wireless access and Admin Rights

[PKSIT]

At my company we have a bunch of laptops that go out and connect to hotel wireless networks and regular wired networks. The wired networks aren't a problem because we can still restrict their permissions. But with the wireless connections XP makes you have admin rights to change network configuration settings which makes sense but in terms of blocking these users from changing the wireless connections without admin rights is causing problems for us.

We do not want these users to be floating around with admin rights outside of our company. Does anybody know any settings that I can change to allow them to change the wireless settings without having admin rights. Maybe someone knows a directory or files I can edit permissions on to bypass this.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Joe

 

[linney]

Anything in these sort of articles?

http://www.google.com/search?q=Conf...+Computer+To+Go+On+The+Road&rls=com.microsoft

 

[bobby13]

We ahve a similar issue with users wanting to use wireless Access Points at Hotels and Airports. What we did was we partitioned the laptop in two. First partition was called Network and the second partition Wireless. Both partitions are invincible to the other. So if you logged into Network partition you can't access the disk on wireless partition.

Both partitions have its own operating system, the difference being on the network partition users have no admin rights and cannot use wirless, it has to be hard wireded to a ethernet port.

On the wirless partition user has full admin rights they can do as they please. That way all company sensitive data is stored on network side, this way we safe guard company data. Users can use the wireless side at public and home wireless networks.

Regards
Bobby