Re: Fingerprint Login on Domain Machine



Sorry, but the Microsoft FingerPrint Reader was
not designed to be used to log on to a domain.

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
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"Gareth" wrote:

| Hello,
|
| I have a laptop that needs to stay on my University's domain, and I just
| recently bought Microsoft's Wireless Intellimouse with Fingerprint Reader
| Combo. The fingerprint scanner works great while I'm in Windows, but because
| I'm on a Domain, I cannot use the device to log into my machine.
|
| I'm at an engineering school, and one of my friends told me that it should
| be physically possible to move the Fingerprint Reader API in the boot
| sequence so that it is actually started before the login screen, and would
| thus work on a Domain-connected machine.
|
| So really, starting from square one, I have a fingerprint scanner, and I
| would REALLY like to use it to log in, except I'm on a domain. There has got
| to be a way to enable it somehow, so I need everyone's help!

.



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