The new library at our university has full wireless coverage and 24 circulating laptops with internal wireless cards. Problem: we have a Windows 2000 domain which requires logon.
We were hoping that by turning WEP off on the access points in the library, the computers would be able to hop onto the network prior to logon, so that the users can authenticate against the domain control. (Just as they can with an ethernet connection.)
Unfortunately, we learned that Windows XP still requires some user intervention before the computer can get on, even without a WEP. The user must click to acknowledge that the wireless network they are accessing is not secured. And that prompt, naturally, comes only after logon.
Anybody have any solutions for this? Any way to back that setting off in XP (the registry?) or to in some other way configure either our laptops or our wireless to get these laptops on in order to allow users to authenticate?
Thanks so much!
We were hoping that by turning WEP off on the access points in the library, the computers would be able to hop onto the network prior to logon, so that the users can authenticate against the domain control. (Just as they can with an ethernet connection.)
Unfortunately, we learned that Windows XP still requires some user intervention before the computer can get on, even without a WEP. The user must click to acknowledge that the wireless network they are accessing is not secured. And that prompt, naturally, comes only after logon.
Anybody have any solutions for this? Any way to back that setting off in XP (the registry?) or to in some other way configure either our laptops or our wireless to get these laptops on in order to allow users to authenticate?
Thanks so much!
