Nov 06, '08 07:30:00AM • Contributed by: aylwin
The iPhone Configuration Utility, available on Apple's iPhone enterprise support page, lets you create wireless network configurations and send them to your iPhone or iPod Touch. However, it only contains a field for entering the SSID, not the network password. Thankfully, Apple's Enterprise Deployment Guide (740KB PDF) references a Password key that we can take advantage of to send the right password to your iPhone or iPod Touch.
This hint will require your iPod or iPhone to have some kind of wireless network access to begin with. But it also requires a Mac or PC, so perhaps you can set it up to share a wired internet connection over the air (more on that here).
Here's the way to resolve this:
- Download the iPhone Configuration Utility from Apple's iPhone enterprise support page.
- Create a new configuration profile and enter your Wi-Fi settings.
- Export the configuration profile to your Desktop or any place that's convenient for you.
- If it's the wireless network's password that is causing problems, open the exported file in your favourite text editor. Insert the following after the part that specifies the SSID:
Note: I had to replace two characters in the password with XML entities (< for <, and & for &) to make this work.<key>Password</key> <string>THE_WPA_PASSWORD</string> - Email the config file as an attachment to an email address that is set up on your iPod or iPhone.
- Open said email on your iPod or iPhone, open the attachment, and touch Install.
