"budman101" <budman
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> Recently I set up WinXP Pro at my office with a wireless network. The
> computer has 4 users, but I only set up one of them with the WEP key
> to access the network. This was not by design, its just because there
> was only one user in the office. I expected the other three users to
> call me about how to set up the WEP keys, but they did not.
> Yesterday I saw two of the others at a party. I asked them if they
> needed to get on the network from their user IDs. Both of them said
> they got on no problem.
> If all the users in XP have Administrator privilege does the
> connection and WEP key carry over to all the other users?
>
>
>
I think that WEP in some way is bound to the wireless NIC, which is common
to any User Account that is active on the XP O/S. So any user logging onto
the computer is going to be protected by WEP on the wireless network
connection.
Duane