Login to Windows 2008 domain over wifi
Had a problem with connecting to Windows 2008 domain from Windows 7 Pro laptops connecting wirelessly to an access point linked to the server. The catch 22 is not being able to login till the network is available, and that doesn’t happen till the user is logged in. Lots of hours Googling later, O’Reilly’s Windows 7 Resource Kit book comes up with the simple answer to this:
Use Netsh wlan connect {wifi profile name} to connect to an exisiting profile. You can then add this into the registry HKLM/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Run as a new string. This will start the network connection before logging on. Obviously there may be security issues, so do more investigating before using this on your network.
Other factors than can cause errors are security software. An HP Connect program instance caused issues and had to be uninstalled.
See: http://answers.oreilly.com/topic/1180-how-to-configure-wireless-settings-in-windows-7/
