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Hi Guys, I have downloaded and installed Packetfence ZEN on my Hyper-V Server recently which is connected to Cisco Catalyst 2960 Switch. My objective is to use it as a HotSpot for our group of restaurants, where i guests can connect to the guest wifi (Aruba Instant 103) via there social media accounts or cell #. All our restaurants are connected via VPN (Fortigate) to the Head Office where the PacketFence VM (Hyper-V server) is based. I have managed to configure Packetfence in VLAN Enforcement mode i am not sure what configuration do i need for the switch and the AP. I have attached the current layout of my network which doesn't seem to be complete if someone can fill in the blanks :-)

Hi Everyone, Basically I'm trying to connect an XBox 360 to the internet from behind a proxy server. I have to get it connected to XBox Live to run an indie game called Kodu in school for a programming lesson. The problem is that you cannot setup a proxy server on the XBox. I have found a solution but I want something a bit better. At the moment I have got a 3g dongle that connects to the internet. Basically to use this I setup a wireless ad hoc network which my XBox connects to and then I can share the 3g connection with the wireless network. The problem with this is it is my 3g dongle and I don't really want to give it to the school to use. What I'm looking for is this. I want some software that I can use to manage a wifi ad hoc network (essentially creating my own proxy server). However this software must allow me to channel the internet connection to that network not directly from an ethernet connection but from the proxy server I am already behind in school. Does anyone know of anything that might/will do this?

Hi, We have win2k3 server with ISA doing all our web filtering and PaperCut NG doing all our charging. All machines are registered on the Domain via AD and GPO controls everything. Users log on and gpo and logon scrips manage experience based on machine location and type and user type. What I would like to do is have a way of allowing staff but mainly students to bring in their own laptop, PSP, smartphone, etc and hook on to our network without IT support. What I want to happen is that they detect our wireless network, or plug directly into a wired port, and from there get auto directed to some web page or similar that authenticates them somehow. Once authenticated they can have access to internet, printers, folder shares, and other domain resources as per their authentication privileges. If they don't authenticate, then we can either block them, or offer them a variety of guest accounts (visiting staff), or give them the choice to pay for our network service via some coupon system. Is there anyone out there doing this already and could point me in the direction of where I could find software solutions to install on our servers to achieve this. Apart from Office staff who would have domain joined desktops, eventually I would have no other desktops and the students and staff could choose their own (mac, pc, *nix, whatever) laptop, network capable device and hook on. I am not worried about software compatibility at this stage, as I know having multiple OSes would mean multiple document platforms (ie MSWord on Mac/PC versus OpenDoc etc) I have a plan for that problem. So again, are there any off the shelf solutions out there ie Cafe Hotspot style access that is good for a school situation. PS: we have simple wireless APs, but have good switches with VLAN support etc. Cheers James