Following up on the other responses: http://www.metageek.net
The hardware and software on there will help a lot, and some of the software packages (inssider, ekahau, and others) are free, and useful by themselves. Kurt On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 05:50, John Hornbuckle <john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us> wrote: > No firm resolution on this yet, but possibly a bit of progress. > > > > I kept thinking about the problems we were having in this lab. The computers > are the same computers we had in the lab last year, and last year we didn’t > have these problems. So, what changed? Two things: we replaced the WAPs that > serve the lab with newer models, and more WAPs were installed in that area > of the building. > > > > So I got to thinking that maybe the issue was an incompatibility between > Broadcom NICs and the new WAPs, or an issue caused by too many WAPs being in > the same vicinity. But we have another lab in a different area of the > building that has the exact same WAPs and the exact same computers—but no > problems. So that left the latter possibility—lots of WAPs stepping on one > another’s toes—as the prime culprit. > > > > The WAPs are Cisco/Linksys, and they all default to the same channel. I > changed the ones in the area that was having the problem to “auto,” but that > didn’t seem to really help. So next I forced the WAPs that serve the lab to > “g” rather than “b/g/n.” As moment, everything is working fine. My tech and > I will be watching throughout the week, and if things are still working > after a few days we’ll consider the issue resolved. > > > > > > John > > > > > > From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] > Subject: Group Policy Problems Over Wireless > > > > Short version: > > Is there a trick to improving group policy processing when accessing the > network wirelessly? > > > > > > Long version: > > We have a lab with machines that have Broadcom wireless NICs in them. Vista > OS, connecting to Server 2008 R2 DC. > > > > I’m trying to deploy a piece of software to these machines via Group Policy. > I have things setup so that if the machine is a member of a certain group, > the software is deployed. Unfortunately, it only worked correctly on one of > the machines—on all the rest, the software isn’t being deployed. > > > > So I connect to any of the machines that didn’t get the software, and run > gpresult. It doesn’t show me that those machines are members of the group > that gets the software. But I know they are; I’ve confirmed in ADUC on the > DC. They’re just not picking up group membership. > > > > Looking at the event log for events that happen around startup, I see things > that make me think group policy processing is trying to happen prior to the > wireless network being initialized. Things like: > > > > Event ID 5719 (There are currently no logon servers available to service the > logon request.) > > Event ID 129 (NtpClient was unable to set a domain peer to use as a time > source because of discovery error.) > > Event ID 1129 (The processing of Group Policy failed because of lack of > network connectivity to a domain controller.) > > > > Connectivity to the DC is fine once you get the [Ctrl] + [Alt] + [Del] > window. You can log in (including as someone who has never logged into the > machine before), ping the DC, browse to \\domain\syvol, and so on. It’s just > that at that point, group policy processing seems to have given up. My > machines aren’t figuring out that they’ve been added to a new group. > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > NOTICE: Florida has a broad public records law. Most written communications > to or from this entity are public records that will be disclosed to the > public and the media upon request. E-mail communications may be subject to > public disclosure. > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
