Give access to Visitors to our intranet

Hi,


Does anybody think it would be possible to open a web page automatically
(without installing any third-party app on the PC)

when a PCMCIA Wifi card detects a network and the user gives the
authorisation to access this network ?

We would like to do it for our visitors coming to our office ... (we will
loan the Wifi pcmcia card to the visitor)

Does anybody saw such a behaviour with some wifi card ?


Daniel

dk <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> Does anybody think it would be possible to open a web page automatically
> (without installing any third-party app on the PC)

http://www.dnsredirector.com seems to be a lightweight way to do that
.... and block access to your competitors' web pages at the same time ;-)

> We would like to do it for our visitors coming to our office ... (we will
> loan the Wifi pcmcia card to the visitor)

Loaning a PCMCIA card means loading some drivers.
The card might accidentally stay in the laptop when the guest leaves.

A better solution is an external "wireless etherenet adapter", assuming
that the laptop has an ethernet port that they already use.
No drivers. A bit clunky, as it's external, but hard to forgetfully carry
out the door.

There are also USB adapters, for those PCs with no ethernet, but those
require drivers.


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Clarence A Dold - Hidden Valley (Lake County) CA USA 38.8-122.5

> Loaning a PCMCIA card means loading some drivers.
> The card might accidentally stay in the laptop when the guest leaves.

Make 'em pay a deposit to the value of the card.

> There are also USB adapters, for those PCs with no ethernet, but those
> require drivers.

Sure, I guess his solution is to offer no support, if it works, great,
if not - tough!

David.

David Taylor <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>> Loaning a PCMCIA card means loading some drivers.
>> The card might accidentally stay in the laptop when the guest leaves.

> Make 'em pay a deposit to the value of the card.

That runs contrary to what I thought the offer was, to visitors at his
business. I can't imagine a client coming in, you offer them a PCMCIA
card, and then want a credit card for a deposit.

Students in our training classes are invited to use their laptops to
the WAP in the training room. We don't offer any hardware, but a fair
number of them already have hardware.

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Clarence A Dold - Hidden Valley (Lake County) CA USA 38.8-122.5

> That runs contrary to what I thought the offer was, to visitors at his
> business. I can't imagine a client coming in, you offer them a PCMCIA
> card, and then want a credit card for a deposit.

Good point, so RFID tag them and fit antennas to detect the movement of
the card.


David.

In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
(E-Mail Removed) says...
> > We would like to do it for our visitors coming to our office ... (we will
> > loan the Wifi pcmcia card to the visitor)
> >
> > Does anybody saw such a behaviour with some wifi card ?
>
> Guest network operation.
>
> This was asked only a couple of days ago in this group. One solution is
> to use something like http://www.dnsredirector.com.
>
> Another is to use a wireless access point that provides for hotspot
> functionality built in.
>

Can you suggest one or more?

Thanks.

> Can you suggest one or more?

Try Google. There are quite a number. Sorry, about to go to bed!