At work we’re trying to set up a bunch of users on laptops with directory-based authentication and home directories. The trouble we’re running into is that these laptops are all wireless, and on OS X, airport doesn’t start until a user logs in. Therefore the machine can’t see the authentication directory on the network until a local user has logged in and out again.
We need some way to get OS X to join a trusted wireless network before a user logs into the system - anyone have experience with this?
Tried so far: Mac OS X Hints and Google.
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Hi, I'm having the same problem, more or less. I need the laptop to authenticate to the wireless network before login as well. I didn't know that the Airport didn't start till after login. I use certificates to authenticate. I tried the 10.4.6 method of passing the 802.1X config to the login window, but that doesn't work unfortunately. Any idea's anyone has would be appreciated, and I can be reached at jamesdod@bigpond.net.au. Cheers.