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10-08-2007
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| | how to block access to ad-hoc networks? Hi! We have a school situation where students take their laptops home, and participate in peer-to-peer networking, mostly for games. When they come back, the network is littered with ad-hoc network advertizing. This disrupts wireless operations. On XP it was possible to right-click on the wireless goodjie on the taskbar, and go into advanced properties, and tell the computer to ignore ad-hoc networks, accepting only WAPs. I can't find this setting in Vista. I'm sure it's somewhere, but Vista has moved eveything around and I get lost. Nothing comes up in the help, or on the Windows Vista KB. Can someone tell me how to get to where I can change this setting in Vista? Thanks Gregg |
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10-09-2007
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| | Re: how to block access to ad-hoc networks? Hello Gregg, If you haven't already, try using the netsh command for wireless networks. For more details, please see: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/w.../aa905085.aspx -- Eric Cross Microsoft MVP (Windows Networking) http://mvp.support.microsoft.com "Gregg Shepherd" <GreggShepherd@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:04F3D62E-ED9E-40B1-9C7A-3E4622F8747D@xxxxxx Quote: > Hi! We have a school situation where students take their laptops home, > and > participate in peer-to-peer networking, mostly for games. When they come > back, the network is littered with ad-hoc network advertizing. This > disrupts > wireless operations. On XP it was possible to right-click on the wireless > goodjie on the taskbar, and go into advanced properties, and tell the > computer to ignore ad-hoc networks, accepting only WAPs. > > I can't find this setting in Vista. I'm sure it's somewhere, but Vista > has > moved eveything around and I get lost. Nothing comes up in the help, or > on > the Windows Vista KB. > > Can someone tell me how to get to where I can change this setting in > Vista? > > Thanks > > Gregg |
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10-09-2007
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| | Re: how to block access to ad-hoc networks? Dear Mr. Cross, Forgive me for complaining, but this is only marginally helpful. In XP there was a simple set of radio buttons, to select "ad-hoc only", "infrastructure only", or "don't care". I'm sure this command line utiity works, but it is a step backward from the simple interface under XP. Is that totally gone now? g "Eric Cross [MVP]" wrote: Quote: > Hello Gregg, > > If you haven't already, try using the netsh command for wireless networks. > > For more details, please see: > http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/w.../aa905085.aspx > > -- > Eric Cross > Microsoft MVP (Windows Networking) > http://mvp.support.microsoft.com > > "Gregg Shepherd" <GreggShepherd@xxxxxx> wrote in message > news:04F3D62E-ED9E-40B1-9C7A-3E4622F8747D@xxxxxx Quote: > > Hi! We have a school situation where students take their laptops home, > > and > > participate in peer-to-peer networking, mostly for games. When they come > > back, the network is littered with ad-hoc network advertizing. This > > disrupts > > wireless operations. On XP it was possible to right-click on the wireless > > goodjie on the taskbar, and go into advanced properties, and tell the > > computer to ignore ad-hoc networks, accepting only WAPs. > > > > I can't find this setting in Vista. I'm sure it's somewhere, but Vista > > has > > moved eveything around and I get lost. Nothing comes up in the help, or > > on > > the Windows Vista KB. > > > > Can someone tell me how to get to where I can change this setting in > > Vista? > > > > Thanks > > > > Gregg > |
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