Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Automating WPA Setup
On Tue, 9 Mar 2010, Julian Y. Koh wrote: At 10:38 AM -0600 3/9/10, Williams, Mr. Michael wrote: We have tutorials available for our users, but our helpdesk folks still have to spend a lot of time manually configuring the wireless supplicant for some of our less tech savvy users.Does anyone have a solution to this problem? Here at NU, our Technology Support Services coded up a Windows utility that we use for this purpose. http://www.it.northwestern.edu/oncampus/wireless/wireless-connections/ Here's another tool that might be of interest: http://sourceforge.net/projects/su1x/ Jethro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jethro R Binks Computing Officer, IT Services, University Of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK ** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Automating WPA Setup
All, I really appreciate all the feedback and useful information I received from the group. Thank you. Mike v/r Michael M. Williams Network Systems Analyst Information Technology Services Tarleton State University 201st St. Felix Str. Box T-0220 Stephenville, TX Tel: (254) 968-1850 Fax: (254) 968-9393 mmwilli...@tarleton.edu -Original Message- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:wireless-...@listserv.educause.edu] On Behalf Of Peter P Morrissey Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 3:01 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Automating WPA Setup I agree. However, I don't believe you get the benefit of certs if you rely upon the self config of the more modern OS's. Peter M. -Original Message- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:wireless-...@listserv.educause.edu] On Behalf Of gwill...@uccs.edu Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 3:22 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Automating WPA Setup If you have Aruba wireless equipment they provide a Vista and XP executable that is configurable. We combine that .exe with our own scripts that the students download to configure both our NAC software on their machine and the SSIDs. The 1 step approach works really well. If it's Windows 7, it takes more work to get the .exe running than it does to do the three steps involved in setting up the SSID. For Mac, same thing. On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Williams, Mr. Michael mmwilli...@tarleton.edu wrote: Hello, We are currently moving away from open wireless access to requiring our users to configure their wireless supplicant for WPA/WPA2. We have tutorials available for our users, but our helpdesk folks still have to spend a lot of time manually configuring the wireless supplicant for some of our less tech savvy users. Does anyone have a solution to this problem? I know you can manually import and export the connection profile (.xml file), but I am looking for a version that the user can download from our website, something like a setup/exe file. Thank you Mike v/r Michael M. Williams Network Systems Analyst Information Technology Services Tarleton State University 201st St. Felix Str. Box T-0220 Stephenville, TX Tel: (254) 968-1850 Fax: (254) 968-9393 mmwilli...@tarleton.edu ** 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/. ** 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/. ** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Automating WPA Setup
We use (and really like) Cloudpath Network's XpressConnect client. It's cross-platform and very configurable. Dave On 03/09/2010 11:38 AM, Williams, Mr. Michael wrote: Hello, We are currently moving away from open wireless access to requiring our users to configure their wireless supplicant for WPA/WPA2. We have tutorials available for our users, but our helpdesk folks still have to spend a lot of time manually configuring the wireless supplicant for some of our less tech savvy users.Does anyone have a solution to this problem? I know you can manually import and export the connection profile (.xml file), but I am looking for a version that the user can download from our website, something like a setup/exe file. Thank you Mike /v/r/ */ /* */Michael M. Williams/* Network Systems Analyst Information Technology Services Tarleton State University 201st St. Felix Str. Box T-0220 Stephenville, TX Tel: (254) 968-1850 Fax: (254) 968-9393 mmwilli...@tarleton.edu ** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. -- David LaPorte | Network Services Architect | david_lapo...@harvard.edu ** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Automating WPA Setup
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 10:38 AM -0600 3/9/10, Williams, Mr. Michael wrote: We have tutorials available for our users, but our helpdesk folks still have to spend a lot of time manually configuring the wireless supplicant for some of our less tech savvy users.Does anyone have a solution to this problem? Here at NU, our Technology Support Services coded up a Windows utility that we use for this purpose. http://www.it.northwestern.edu/oncampus/wireless/wireless-connections/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 9.9.1.287 wj8DBQFLloFbDlQHnMkeAWMRAooNAJ9nfkdjtRMOP1ckbh7JUGDhoMSZ6QCeILAG QcdGjEpz0SPXQzz5owecbaw= =iE+i -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Julian Y. Koh mailto:kohs...@northwestern.edu Manager, Network Transport phone:847-467-5780 Telecommunications and Network Services Northwestern University PGP Public Key:http://bt.ittns.northwestern.edu/julian/pgppubkey.html ** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Automating WPA Setup
We create an executable using the Intel Proset administrator toolkit. However most of our students use a school assigned laptop which has an Intel card with the Intel Proset client already installed on the images. We are moving away to radius authentication and this will be a challenge because so far I cannot see/find an easy way to create a profile with only a pop up window to ask for user credentials. Ammar Abdulahad Wireless/Network Analyst Lawrence Technological University IT Service Delivery Tel: 248-204-2335 On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Williams, Mr. Michael mmwilli...@tarleton.edu wrote: Hello, We are currently moving away from open wireless access to requiring our users to configure their wireless supplicant for WPA/WPA2. We have tutorials available for our users, but our helpdesk folks still have to spend a lot of time manually configuring the wireless supplicant for some of our less tech savvy users. Does anyone have a solution to this problem? I know you can manually import and export the connection profile (.xml file), but I am looking for a version that the user can download from our website, something like a setup/exe file. Thank you Mike v/r Michael M. Williams Network Systems Analyst Information Technology Services Tarleton State University 201st St. Felix Str. Box T-0220 Stephenville, TX Tel: (254) 968-1850 Fax: (254) 968-9393 mmwilli...@tarleton.edu ** 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/.
RE: [WIRELESS-LAN] Automating WPA Setup
I agree. However, I don't believe you get the benefit of certs if you rely upon the self config of the more modern OS's. Peter M. -Original Message- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:wireless-...@listserv.educause.edu] On Behalf Of gwill...@uccs.edu Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 3:22 PM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Automating WPA Setup If you have Aruba wireless equipment they provide a Vista and XP executable that is configurable. We combine that .exe with our own scripts that the students download to configure both our NAC software on their machine and the SSIDs. The 1 step approach works really well. If it's Windows 7, it takes more work to get the .exe running than it does to do the three steps involved in setting up the SSID. For Mac, same thing. On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Williams, Mr. Michael mmwilli...@tarleton.edu wrote: Hello, We are currently moving away from open wireless access to requiring our users to configure their wireless supplicant for WPA/WPA2. We have tutorials available for our users, but our helpdesk folks still have to spend a lot of time manually configuring the wireless supplicant for some of our less tech savvy users. Does anyone have a solution to this problem? I know you can manually import and export the connection profile (.xml file), but I am looking for a version that the user can download from our website, something like a setup/exe file. Thank you Mike v/r Michael M. Williams Network Systems Analyst Information Technology Services Tarleton State University 201st St. Felix Str. Box T-0220 Stephenville, TX Tel: (254) 968-1850 Fax: (254) 968-9393 mmwilli...@tarleton.edu ** 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/. ** 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/.
