New User Authentication on Laptop computer

[JP]

Question for you. I work in a High School. We have a mobile lab of 12 gateway
laptops....we just set up a new AD enviornment. Here is my problem. The
laptops on the cart are wirless. I have new students trying to log onto the
laptops but cannot because they can not reach the domain, thus can not
authenticat and build a profile. Is there a way in XP(SP2) to set the wirless
card to be active all the time so that a new user that has never logged onto
the laptop can access the domain? i have tried setting in Network connections
but can not get anything to work. There are Broadcom wireless cards in the
laptops
Thanks
JP

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Question for you. I work in a High School. We have a mobile lab of 12
gateway laptops....we just set up a new AD enviornment. Here is my
problem. The laptops on the cart are wirless. I have new students
trying to log onto the laptops but cannot because they can not reach
the domain, thus can not authenticat and build a profile. Is there a
way in XP(SP2) to set the wirless card to be active all the time so
that a new user that has never logged onto the laptop can access the
domain? i have tried setting in Network connections but can not get
anything to work. There are Broadcom wireless cards in the laptops
Thanks
JP

What kind of wireless do you use in your school? And do these laptops have
third party wireless management software on them? That's one of the first
things I uninstall when I work on a new laptop (if I can't simply disable
it) - let Windows handle it.

Note also that you ought to be using "always wait for network" in your group
policy settings ....it will help many things.