Setting up a wireless profile for multiple domain users?

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Here's my situation:

I have a couple of laptops that will be checked out to students throughout the day. The machines are running Win7 Enterprise and have already been joined to the students' domain. Even if the user has never logged onto the machine before, they need to be able to do so wirelessly. I've created a network profile to get them connected to a secure AP, but it needs to somehow be enabled at the Windows login (in order for new, non-cached users to authenticate successfully). What settings should I look for?

Thanks for any help!
 
I know Intel Pro WiFi app has a feature for auto connection to wifi at boot up, hope all your lappys are Intel type
 
Laptops I have joined to the network while logged into the Domain Admin account have maintain this connection through reboots for new users to log in.
 
Unfortunately, our school's admins haven't created such an account, so I think I'm out of luck here. Joys of the student-worker! :p
 
We're using a CISCO WCS at our school. have it set for machine authentication (machine has to be a member of the domain to connect) and windows login creds to actually log into the machine. For take homes, we use Offline Files and syncing...but this can be cumbersome with a multi-user machine. Also, most Dell WLAN cards are rebadged Intel ones....you can probably run the pure Intel driver right from intel.com
 
Interesting. I'll check around and see what Intel driver I can possibly use.

But yup, these need to be multi-user. For single-user only machines, we've just had them login once through a wired connection, and from there on out, their credentials are cached. The trouble, then, is the first sign on! :p
 
Nasty_Savage, have you got a link handy to figure out which Dell card is which Intel card?
 
archivalbackup said:
Leave an ethernet cable at the checkout location for first sign on?
Click to expand...

But doing this for each unique person that comes along is cumbersome. Plus the checkout location is a director's office with a single port in use. I'm not sure they'd like the disconnect/reconnect game. :p
 
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