Windows xp wireless logon to domain

I've seen the word Ruckus banded about for wireless, and it looks like a managed solution. I'm going to investigate the costs. We are moving to a new build in 18 months, apparently with no suite and lots of wireless, so we are going to need something reliable. I'll also experiment with the timeouts and password change settings suggested above.

We use windows config and I've got the main GP settings suggested apart from timeout and password change. Originally Posted by tosh I have had this problem too, and thanks to the help from the guys and gals here at Edugeek, I have managed to minimise this problem Page 1 of 2 1 2 Last Jump to page:. By bwestlake in forum Hardware. Preventing Logon when domain not available By Gibbo in forum How do you do Tags for this Thread domain not available , laptop , radius.

The time now is AM. All rights reserved. Seems to me some of it had to do with what protocols? Once this was reconfigured, the computers authenticated at startup, before logon and now run both startup AND logon scripts successfully. Logon is also significantly faster. Friday, May 21, PM. Hi there Having almost the same problem, but i can get my scrips running when logging on, also when its not with cached credentials.

I also set gpo to wait for network connection, and that seems to be working for me. But when the computer logs on the network connection drops after 60 seconds or something like that, but my internet still works, so the wireless connection is still connected, but for some reason my server is not allowing a stedy connection. But all drived maps can't be acceset wihtout syncronizing, then you can see the files on the drive but again after 30 seconds the connections drops to the server and then you have to sync again.

Your problem might be resolved by going to the xp workstation and go to properties on the wireless connection and check the box saying that windows should handle your network connection, third party software will not load before logon, onless you have an option called prelogin. Hope this helps a bit. Sunday, January 10, PM. Thanks Ninea, Alas, we are already using windows to manage our wireless network connections Hej again Do you have access points or do you use a router for the wireless devices.

If you use a router how is it setup. Access points. Hello Vtandi, According to your description, I understand that your XP machines don't run domain logon script consistently with wireless connection. This issue might be occur by Windows XP fast logon feature when the wireless connection is not ready to connect to domain.

That's why it caused a cached logon. To workaround this issue, you may need to disable fast logon feature on the prolbematic clients.

Monday, January 11, AM. Monday, January 11, PM. Hello Andi, Thank you for your update. According to the log file, it seems the computer cannnot find the domain name. To narrow down the issue, please check the following items: 1. Tuesday, January 12, AM. Good Morning Wilson, 1. Question, my group policy script is stored within the specific group policy folder which is where I have always stored them.

Previously someone also created a folder called scripts at the root of sysvol and other policies run scripts from within this folder all logon as opposed to startup.

Would I be better off linking the policy to a script stored in the "scripts" folder? Logically I can't see where this would make a difference, but I am reaching Tuesday, January 12, PM. Wednesday, January 13, AM. Thanks Wilson, I will try this setting. However, I am working with Startup, not logon, scripts. Will this help in that regard as well or is there another setting? The only one I see dealing with Startup scripts simply says whether or not to run multiples at the same time.

Best, Andi. Wednesday, January 13, PM. I am still unable to get startup scripts to run on wireless devices Best, Andi.

Friday, January 15, PM. Hey again I do not use bat scripts but i now that vb scripts has a sleep command that delays the scripts so any number of seconds after connection it's set to run.

I tried googling the bat delay and found this. The rest of this section looks at a few tips and techniques for altering your Windows XP logon method. It prevents automatic logons and thwarts any malicious programs-such as a password-stealing program-that might have been activated at startup. If your computer uses the Welcome screen logon, you switch to the Classic logon by using any of the following techniques:.

Windows XP's fast user switching feature enables another user to log on to the system without logging off the current user. Note, however, that fast user switching is available only if you use the Windows XP Welcome screen.

You use the feature by following these steps:. If your computer doesn't have much memory, fast user switching can be a problem because the programs and windows of other users remain open, which can slow down overall computer performance. Another chore you performed during the Windows XP setup routine was to specify an Administrator password. Any help would be useful. ERD commander does wonders on XP When I have such issues I boot the computer using a bootable version of PC UnLocker which boots the system up and allows me to remove the password and unlock any local user account including the local administrator account independent of the windows operating system as I have used it computers running from WinXP to Win Once the system reboots I can login using a local admin account, I can then remove the computer from a domain and still have access to all data on the drive, and I do all of that offline.

Just do be aware that if the PCs are as old as XP-vintage that you are likely going to run into some major hardware compatibility issues with Windows Go to the Dell and Lenovo support pages and check if they have Windows 8.

If not, then more than likely you won't even be able to install Windows 10 on them network and graphics drivers likely won't exist for older chipsets. Please provide model numbers. I've worked with dozens of Dell and Lenovo laptops over the years.

I've never seen one with a HDD that was incompatible with other machines. I know, unlikely, but I've still come across systems with IDE every now and then. If you do not have a UBCD or similar linux boot disk and you have a windows CD there is a cunning trick where you hijack one of the accessibility apps renamed cmd. I second AlanNF - turn off wifi or unplug network cable and try again. Done this a few times successfully.

It just logs you in as if the Domain controller is there. Now as to why it does that Good luck. We've run 10 on seriously old machines when testing - all good except for the occasional driver issue.

This will allow you to run a copy of xp on this disc unsing the Ram and use the tools on the cd to recover all your data that you would like. I would download a password reset tool bootable CD, reset the local administrator password and then log right in.

I have used this method several times with no problems as long as the drive is not encrypted. Unlock and enable the local administrator account with a boot disk Hirens, like others have mentioned, would work fine.