Computer Name tab

[sellarsm]

In XP, is there a policy to hide the Computer Name tab in the System Properties dialog box?
If not, is there way to disable the Network ID and/or Change... buttons?

Yes, our users are local Admins and I realize they could reverse any settings we apply or use other interfaces to effect the same change, but getting rid of the 'obvious' would be a big step...

Thanks, Martin

[AdamV]

If not, is there way to disable the Network ID and/or Change... buttons?

Yes, our users are local Admins

You kind of answer your own question there.

Users who are not admins cannot change the network ID, unjoin the domain or whatever (the button is disabled).

As far as I know there is no way to policy this natively. As you describe, this would be pointless, because non-admins already can't do this, and admins can probably get round the policy you try to enforce.

[JP Miller]

Heres a method to achieve that goal
ACL netid.dll so that no one can see it. This is done thru a GPO or via script
cacls netid.dll /e /r "power users" administrators users

How do you get it back? ACL the file so that anyone can see it.
echo y | cacls netid.dll /g "power users":r administrators:f users:r

[PreviousPoster]

If you delete (or rename) the file 'netid.dll' in the system32 directory that removes the Computer Name tab from the System Properties dialog. It took me ages to go the other way with a broken XP Embedded installation until I finally worked out that copying the file from a full copy of XP Pro would fix things.

It would be nice to know what other DLLs provide specific dialog tabs, but so far I've not found much info in that direction.

// James Gibb
// Freemaster Engineering Ltd.
// Ferrybridge Powerstation, UK

[cocoyu113]

lol

[enriqueeeee]

we fixed it like this some of our users are local administrators

cacls c:\windows\system32\netid.dll /e /r "power users" administrators
users
cacls c:\windows\system32\netid.dll /E /G domain\our_group:F
cacls c:\windows\system32\netid.dll /E /G %computername%\administrator:F

we remove the rights for all administrators and then add rights for our admins and the local administrator account.