A question about the registry

[ReddDogg]

Hopefully this is something someone knows about. I have a laptop, and I take it and a 5 port hub to work and I split the network connection at work and steal configuration off of an idle work computer so I can hop on our T1 line and download stuff. The problem is, when I log on to the network, the login script edits my registry and makes it require logging on to an NT Server and having the password validated, and it also disables the registry edit, the network applet in the control panel, and also the users/passwords applet in the control panel. I do have an NT server at home, so I can take laptop home, logon to my NT machine, and get computer to run so I can transfer the files to another computer, but my computer is so disabled, and it sucks. so I end up reformatting my computer, and putting windows back on. I have recently figured out a way got get into my registry by running the regedit program from across teh network on my laptop.

My question, does anyone know where in the registry it get's changed and what area I should fiddle with to figure it out? I have explored and found nothing on my own. I would ask our admin, but I am breaking rules by loggin onto network with the laptop, and so I don't want them to know.

Any help would be appreciated. I have figured a way around reloading windows, windows Me has the restore feature, so I just restore my system to before I logged into work network, but I want to know how this works for future reference, because it is really cool that you can make windows 98 require logging in with a password or it won't let you in at all.

------------------
Joe Redd
MCP

[Will Rickards]

Why don't you just read the script itself, it is usually a batch file.

You can run control panel applets from the command line, see Q232536 (http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q232/5/36.ASP).

I had another idea which may or may not even be valid...
If you are just getting on the network to download from the internet
do you have to log on to the domain? Maybe if you used workgroup mode instead of domain mode you would avoid the problem?

------------------
Will Rickards ~ wrickard@home.com
http://www.willrickards.net

[ReddDogg]

When I go to logon, I must specify the ip address, the gateway, the dns number, the domain I am logging onto, and the subnet mask. If I leave the gateway out, I can see other computers on our network, but can't open interenet. When I put in the gateway, then it runs the login script, and that logon script is stored on the server, which I can't get to. It flashes the commands on the screen, but too fast for me to read. They are very intent on making it such a hassle to do what I am doing that no one will try it. I of course love a challenge http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

Whatever the editing is, it doesn't let me do anything from the command line either, least none that I have tried, I will try the tricks on that link you gave, but what I really want to know, is how I can do what they have done to my computer, because as an aspiring network dude, I will likely want to do that type of thing to the computer network at my future employment.

------------------
Joe Redd
MCP

[ReddDogg]

I tried the command line commands to try and open control panel items... while the do work for items I normally can just click on, it gives same error when trying to open items that are disabled. They are disabled in the registry somehow, I will have to go through the registry line by line and see if I can find it, but this gives a better clue what I am looking for (now I am just semi-clueless about what i am looking for, lol http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

------------------
Joe Redd
MCP