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Use LEAP without continual password re-entry
Authored by: Dahak on Feb 09, '04 09:39:18PM

There may be an easier way to do this, depending on how your LEAP set is configured. I've been able to set up a location for LEAP-enabled wireless networks using the following setup:

In the Airport tab of Network Preferences:

1. Set it to join a specific network
2. In the "Network" blank, put in the SSID.
3. In the "Password" blank, enter the LEAP login and password both like this: <username/password>

The less than and greater than signs are required, as is the slash separating the username and password. If your username is for an NT Domain (which LEAP can do apparently), you should enter it in this format:

<DOMAIN\username/password>



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Use LEAP without continual password re-entry
Authored by: smkolins on May 20, '05 09:31:33AM

this doesn't seem to always work. In 10.4.1 I've notived that if you create a new location, it configures the possibility of an airport to allow for LEAP authentication. In this new location, switch airport from automatic to prefered. It may well give a list of preferred networks you've joined in the past. Hit the little "+" and it will let you fully enter the data for a new network (name, user, password and authentication style.)

However for me it seems like you are good only for a boot on that location. If you put your computer to sleep from another network ( not sure if ANY other network or just another airport network) when you wake on the LEAP required authentication network it will try and fail two or three times (airport indicator fills and empties, notes added to system log.) But once on that location and you restart it seems to work.

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Use LEAP without continual password re-entry
Authored by: shoobe01 on Mar 09, '06 09:18:59AM

I stumbled across the use of Internet Connect to get on my corporate LEAP protected WiFi network on my own, but not to save on password entry.

Despite the same fields seemingly being available in the challenge/response box for Other... network in the toolbar, ONLY Internet Connect (setting up an 802.1x authentication) worked to join our network. No idea why its different. Only one true trick to it: its an Active Domain place, but it only works if you do not put AD/ in front of the username. No idea why.

Once set up, this works almost totally seamlessly. I have one wireless location, and the preferred network name for the corporate network uses the Internet Connect authentication. All other preferred networks are also automatically available, like when I go home or am waiting at the doctor's office.

The only oddity I have encountered is that it doesn't always grab the LEAP network when you manually switch Locations. Does work when its been switched, then wakes from sleep. This usually works fine as the computer is in wireless mode and I pull it out of the bag and open it, but when I have to relinquish a wireline connection I usually have to sleep to force the wireless connection, which is odd.



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