Re: Wireless network connection not established before user login

From: Barry (Barry_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 05/30/05 

Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 04:41:02 -0700

We had a similar situation wirh Cisco Aironet Wireless PCI NIC's and solved
the problem by updating the drivers from the Cisco site.
I'm lead to believe this is the case with many Cisco and other vendor
wireless NIC's.

"Steven L Umbach" wrote:

> Microsoft.public.windows.networking.wireless. If you are using Outlook
> Express or such create a newsgroup account for news.microsoft.com . You
> don't need an account/password to use it just make sure the account you
> create is using news.microsoft.com as the server name. I had to create a
> newsgroup account since my ISP newsgroup account does not have a lot of the
> Microsoft newsgroups. The link below may help. --- Steve
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/using/howto/oe/gettingnews.mspx
>
>
> "Dan" <Dan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:AB4C5B26-8B5F-4163-BBA4-7668FBB6EBA3@microsoft.com...
> >I kept seeing suggestions to visit Microsoft wireless newsgroup but where
> >the
> > heck is it?
> >
> > "Steven L Umbach" wrote:
> >
> >> There is a Microsoft wireless newsgroup where you may want to post this
> >> question. Not all wireless equipment is equal and some works better than
> >> others when used in a domain environment where computer policy needs to
> >> be
> >> applied at startup ideally. --- Steve
> >>
> >>
> >> "e_zverev" <ezverev@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:C7C421DA-B636-4B87-A120-215D007DF43D@microsoft.com...
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > I manage MS Windows server 2003 SP1 based domain, inhabited by MS
> >> > Windows
> >> > XP
> >> > SP2 clients. These clients connect to the domain via wireless network
> >> > cards
> >> > and access points (D-Link).
> >> >
> >> > The problem I have is that my client computers seem to initialize their
> >> > network connection only after user credentials are supplied, not
> >> > before.
> >> > As
> >> > far as I know this is not the intended behavior. Thus computer
> >> > policies,
> >> > such
> >> > as computer sortware assignment, are not applied, even after user logs
> >> > in.
> >> >
> >> > Thanks for any information.
> >> > --
> >> > Eugene U. Zverev,
> >> > Senior Programmer
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
>
>

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