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Apple are you listening?
Authored by: brett_x on Mar 26, '07 08:49:08AM

How about an option to "Never join the "XXXX" wireless network". We have one rogue network near our offices and it's outside our control. There's no way that I know of for me to "always ignore" or "never Join" that network. Every time I fire up my laptop, it asks if I'd like to join it.
On a higher level, I'd like to disable our users ability to join that network.. but Apple doesn't consider themselves in the Enterprise market enough to give us full controls.... (if anyone knows of a way to do that, please let me know).



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Apple are you listening?
Authored by: PizzaCake on Mar 26, '07 01:13:07PM

I remember setting up my sister's MacBook to only join wireless networks I had specified. I created a Location called safe wireless. There was an option to not automatically connect to wireless networks. Just dig around network preferences/airport I'm sure its all around there.



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Apple are you listening?
Authored by: jelmore49 on Mar 26, '07 04:45:59PM

In the Network pane of the System Preferences, go to the AirPort configuration. There will be a sub-tab also called "AirPort".

Change "By default, join:" from "Automatic" to "Preferred networks" and remove all network names that you do not want the machine to connect to.

Select the "Options..." button; for "If no preferrred networks are found:", select "Keep looking for recent networks"; this should keep AirPort for looking for non-authorized networks, but I haven't tried it.



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