Mark, If you are an edu you should have killer pricing on enterprise versions of MS software. I know you say its out of the question, but you might sniff around and see what edu specific pricing might be. (we bought through an education consortium, but you should be able to track down an MS rep in your area that deals specifically with education.)
When I worked for uoregon.edu we never bought 2003 standard because the price difference was miniscual -troy ________________________________ From: Reimer, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 10:30 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Ideas needed, maybe Radius server, maybe... Hi folks, Here's the situation, sorry for the long post. There are a number of students using wireless in our dorms, about 350 of them. This past year, I had a little Linux router (read old PC) that could block by MAC address, and that was what I used to allow access to the internet. Now we want to have some sort of username/password. The students all get accounts on our Windows 2003 domain, mostly for checking their email which are on our servers. We would like to use these accounts for authentication from their wireless connections. If I read the docs correctly, Windows 2003 standard will allow for 50 Radius clients. I don't have any Windows 2003 Enterprise or DataCenter licenses (which allow unlimited Radius clients), and getting an Enterprise or Data Center license is out of the question. I don't have any managed switches, and basically no routers (except for the little one mentioned above, and our firewall). The current wireless access points are a hodge podge of makes, most of which can talk with a radius server, but I think I do have one or two that can not. I'm not familiar with Linux, but I can learn it if that will solve my problem. Any other ideas I might be missing? Thanks. Mark ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
