(New Member) T42 User - Ongoing issues with AC/ThinkVantage

[chingtastic]

Hi all,

I work for a large consulting company which uses IBM and Levou (sp?) to provide our employees with Thinkpad laptops. One very common gripe amongst all of us who have a T40 and T42 is the Access Connections application and the wireless networking capabilities. Each user tends to have a slightly different problem and it all revolves around our company's IT department putting a series of security checks on what we *can* and *cannot* do with the laptop's wireless networking.

For me, the Windows wireless features are all but disabled - and no matter what I do to try and return control back to Windows fails. Meanwhile, Access Connections (and now Thinkvantage), will not let me create, edit, or delete location profiles. I get warnings about how the "administrator disabled this function" and to "contact the network administrator". What this means is that, after one time during which I got *very* lucky, I was able to tell Access Connections how to connect to my home wireless router. Since then, I cannot change this connection or add/delete from it. After installing Thinkvantange on a co-worker's computer and seeing that it solved his problems - I did so on my own laptop. However, I'm still having the same problem...

I've read through numerous IBM tech support articles and there are options for "returning" this admin privledge to the computer's user - but they are all disabled. You might know these as options to be found under "Global Settings", and so forth.

I am logged in as an adminstrator of the computer (I have two accounts, one Administrator and another, custom user with Admin privledges). I suspect that the company IT person who performed the "deployment" of my laptop fouled up. However, their own response is that they could wipe the OS and try again. That answer does not work for me. If I were to reformat the laptop I would do it myself - there's no way I'm letting those bafoons mess this up any further. Ok, vent is over...

Does anyone have any thoughts/suggestions on how to return this administrator permission to me, the actual user (and administrator)?

Thank you!!

[GomJabbar]

Try what I posted here to get your permissions back.

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=15662

[davidspalding]

If you're logged in as a local admin, and STILL can't change the global setting which lets only "system admins" manage profiles, sounds like someone did indeed mess up.

Maybe ... uninstall AC (remove profiles and configuration), and then reinstall as local admin, and then ensure that option is set to let non-local admins manage profiles?

[chingtastic]

Thank you for both suggetsions...

I will remove AC once again and installed as "Administrator" versus some other flavor of local/domain account with Admin privledges. I think that might be my best shot at this point...

I don't mind the AC application - I just wish it would let me use it!