Hve you tried in gpedit.msc (can be done with GPO also) to set: Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\System\Logon
"Always wait for the network at computer startup and logon" enabled It's supposed to be an XP setting, but is shown in gpedit in Vista. It's worked on our XP machines, but I personally haven't tried it on Vista. Mearl > -----Original Message----- > From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John York > Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 4:01 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] wireless labs > > Hi > We are moving some of our labs from wired to wireless, but running into > problems with the windows client. (We run Vista in our labs now, > hopefully will change to 7 before long.) At present the machines > autologin with cached credentials, then they authenticate to the > wireless network. This causes problems in drive mapping and running > group policies. We're trying to find a way to authenticate to the > wireless at the machine level before any of the user level stuff runs. > Years ago we did this with the Funk Odyssey client. Is there a way to > do that through windows, or does it still require a third-party client? > Thanks > John > > ********** > Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE > Constituent Group discussion list can be found at > http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
