Windows XP, as well as previous versions of Windows, comes with built-in groups. You can use these groups to grant a specific user or group the ability to perform various administrative tasks. This way you do not have to add a user to the Administrators group, which would give them more rights then they actually require.

Windows XP includes a group called the Network Configuration Operators group. Users in this group have some administrative privilege to manage the configuration of networking features. Once you add a user to this group, they will have the ability to perform the following network related tasks:

• Modify TCP/IP properties for a local area connection.

• Rename LAN connections or remote access connections available to all users.
• Enable or disable a LAN connection.
• Modify the properties of remote access connections of the user.
• Delete all of the remote access connections of the user.
• Rename all remote access connections of the user.
• Use ipconfig, release, or renew commands.