unable to change tcpip properties?

[browolf]

found a bunch of machines in a room, where the tcpip properties button is greyed out even for administrators. Bit annoying cos we need to change some settings. We'd rather not have to re-ghost 20 odd machines. Any ideas on how this happened/how to fix it?

cheers

andy

[StewartKnight]

I had this, it was a virus, and I had to reinstall the OS.
I'm not saying thats what you have though.
Can you get a dos box up and running?
If you can, try this using netsh, a good site explaining this is this one

[browolf]

ooh i didnt know about that. if i could get that working could put it in our admins login script. :-)

thanks.

[pete]

isn't it also possible to disable access to tcp/ip propeties (even for admins) through group policy?

[browolf]

using netsh on a machine with this problem has a funny error
"the inf or device information set or element does not match the specified install class" otherwise works a treat on the ones without this problem.

there's nothing enabled in gpedit.msc

i've discovered it wont let me remove the network card concerned and i can't get in to safe mode either!

[browolf]

i booted using winpe and deleted the broadcom .sys driver. upon reboot the network card has unsurprisingly a yellow exclamation. if i try to get it reinstall the driver it has the same error message as above.