JoeyH

Ah, doing that gave me a more detailed error, which pointed to the fact that there was a duplicated MIME mapping between the web.config file and the IIS config. I was able to get it working from there by removing that line. Thanks

Hey folks! I'm trying to setup Home Access Plus on a Win2k8R2 server, but I'm getting some odd behavior. I set up the site according to the documentation on the Codeplex site, but whenever I open the URL in the my browser, it seems to only be loading the specific page I'm on - no CSS, Javascript, etc. If I view source and click on one of the files it's trying to load, I get an error stating that "The page cannot be displayed because an internal server error has occurred." I've not seen this one before, and Google's being of only limited help. Has anyone encountered this error before? Joey

Right now, our network consists almost entirely of desktop computers and netbooks that never leave campus (mobile computer labs). To handle everything, we use Active Directory to authenticate users, and folder redirection to allow them to share their documents. However, our school is considering going one-to-one. One thing I'm trying to figure out is how do we allow students and staff to log into school-issued devices outside the network? Obviously our domain controllers and file servers are only available within our schools. I'm wondering what everyone else is doing: If you do one-to-one computing and allow students to take computers home, do you have any form of authentication, or does each device just have a single local account? How do you have students save files? Syncronization? Web upload? Just save to the HD and have them be responsible for backups? If you don't use AD, how do you deploy and manage rules and polices on the devices?

Did you install PHP via the zip package? If so, there should be a file called php_mysql.dll in the /ext directory. Make sure it is there, and if it isn't, I'd download the zip package and get the file from there. Next open up your php.ini file and look for this line: ;extension=php_mysql.dll And remove the semicolon from the front: extension=php_mysql.dll

Broadcasting the SSID did not seem to have much effect, I turned on SSID broadcast and tested with a few netbooks, and the problem persisted. The Dell Utility, on the other hand, worked remarkably well. I installed it on a non-authenticating netbook, and sure enough there was an option to enable wireless before login. After the laptop was configured, I took an image off it and sent it to the rest of that lab's netbooks, and they all connected and authenticated on the first try. Tried again with a second lab, and again they all worked. Thanks for all the help everyone

Yes, The GPO is set to only access infrastructure networks. We also already tried enabling wait for network at startup (and disabling it too), and that seemed to have little effect.

I generally do not eat lunch in the staff rooms. I've found that whenever I eat in a staff room, everyone there has a computer question. I don't mind helping people with their computers, as that's what I'm there to do, but it gets annoying when it takes forty five minutes to each lunch because I have to answer a question in between each bite. Instead I normally just eat lunch in the tech office.

Ok, I'll give unhiding the SSIDs a shot, definitely worth a try. Thanks One thing I forgot to mention originally though, the first two batches of netbooks we imaged connected to their wireless networks (still with hidden SSIDs) without issue, and logged in effortlessly. It wasn't until the later batches that we started having issues. However, the first two batches were also imaged a week earlier than the later ones. So if during that week, someone living nearby the school (within wireless range) setup a wireless network (with a visible SSID), would it be possible that the subsequent batches were noticing this visible network, and refusing to connect to the hidden one because of it? We never actually did do a check for other wireless networks within the range. The wireless network settings are applied via GPO, the netbooks will not know which wireless network to connect to unless they are already on the domain. We just are using the drivers - when we built the image, we did not install any wireless utilities. Are you recommending using the Dell utility, or not using it?

Hello! The school I worked for purchased about 500 Dell Inspiron 1010 netbooks for use in several of our classrooms. We are assigning 26 netbooks per classroom, and each classroom will have its own wireless access point. We imaged all these netbooks with Windows XP Pro SP3, and after the netbooks are imaged, they are moved into an OU in Active Directory for the classroom they will be in. The OU has a GPO assigning that room's AP to the netbooks. We're noticing, however, that the majority (most, but not all) of these netbooks will not connect to the wireless AP until after a user logs in. If the user is at the login screen, the computer will not connect to the wireless network. This is a huge problem for us - we use Active Directory for user authentication, but if the connection is unavailable, they can not communicate with the domain controller, and thus can not log in. So basically we're stuck in a loop here - user can not log in until they authenticate with the domain controller, user can not authenticate with the domain controller until they have a network connection, user can not have a network connection until they log in. I confirmed that the wireless adapter is not available at the login prompt by pinging it with a desktop computer. When I pinged the wireless adapter's IP while the netbook's at the login prompt, the pings will time out. However, once I log in (either over a wired connection or by using a local account), the wireless adapter starts responding to pings. Log back out, and it starts dropping pings again. So I'm looking for a way to reliably get these devices to connect to the wireless networks at the login screen, so the users will be able to connect with the domain controller and log in. I've tried a number of things: Installing updates via WSUS. Going to device settings and modifying the device power settings. Using GPO to test both enabling and disabling "Always wait for network connection to be active". Multiple access points (to rule out a bad AP). And yet none of these tricks have worked. Does anyone have any suggestions? Specs, if necessary: OS: Windows XP Pro SP3 Model: Inspiron 1010 Wireless adapter: Dell Wirless 1397 WLAN Mini-card Wireless SSIDs hidden No wireless security Wireless APs: Cisco WAP4410N Server (AD, DHCP, DNS): Windows 2003 R2 SP2 Wireless util: Windows Zero Conf If any other details are necessary, please ask.