This is an out there question but I'm looking for the best way to do something.
I've been asked to come up with a method of turning off wireless cards when a laptop is in the office and connected to the domain. Turning on/off the NIC's is a straight forward process via a scipt so that is not the question. What I'm trying to do is find the best logic on WHEN to turn it on/off. I thought about grabbing the IP address and using that (if it matches the corporate IP structure then turn off/otherwise leave alone), I've thought about pinging a IP (if you can reach this internal IP then turn off/otherwise leave on. The real problem with these is having to do the check every x minutes to account for people who never turn their laptops off when they bring them into/out of the office. But, is there something in AD that is set when it is connected to a domain that is not used when it is in cached mode? Is AD "smart" enough to know it's current connection status with a DC? Is it something that I can key against? What about sites? Is there a key I can use when it is assocated with a site? Just looking for a more elegant solution here rather than using brute force. Cheers List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
