XP and only one wireless access point

I’m looking help for a way to have XP only connect to my wireless access point.

I do not want the user to have the ability to see other available wireless
networks and more importantly I don’t want them to have the ability to
connect to wireless networks other than the one I configured XP with.

Scenerio: The computers are part of the management offices of apartment
complexes. We will have 1 wireless router and 3-5 computers per location(No
servers or Active Directories in use anywhere). Being that these are
apartments, there are usually quite a few open access points within reach of
the leasing office. And somehow my users are getting associated to these
‘other’ wireless networks. My biggest support issues right now are them
calling up saying they cannot print anymore to a printer in the office and I
find out they are connected to ‘linksys’ instead of the one they are suppose
to be. I simply have them re-connect to the office WIFI and remove the rogue
AP from the preferred list to get them back on their network.

For the record, the ‘Automatically connect to non-preferred networks’ is not
checked.

What I’ve tried: If I stop the WZC service after the computer boots up, that
prevents the ‘view available’ functionality, which is good and allows for
continued use on their wireless network, but if I disable the service
completely, wireless networking does not work at all upon reboot.

How can I make XP only work with just one access point?

Hi
Switch off Windows Zero Configuration and try the original utility that came
with the Wireless card. Some of the utilities are very simple and do not
show any thing but your own Network.
In addition if you use (and you should) the wireless security (encryption)
the computers would not be able to connect to other Networks.
Jack (MVP-Networking).

"Chad D" <Chad (E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I'm looking help for a way to have XP only connect to my wireless access
> point.
>
> I do not want the user to have the ability to see other available wireless
> networks and more importantly I don't want them to have the ability to
> connect to wireless networks other than the one I configured XP with.
>
> Scenerio: The computers are part of the management offices of apartment
> complexes. We will have 1 wireless router and 3-5 computers per
> location(No
> servers or Active Directories in use anywhere). Being that these are
> apartments, there are usually quite a few open access points within reach
> of
> the leasing office. And somehow my users are getting associated to these
> 'other' wireless networks. My biggest support issues right now are them
> calling up saying they cannot print anymore to a printer in the office and
> I
> find out they are connected to 'linksys' instead of the one they are
> suppose
> to be. I simply have them re-connect to the office WIFI and remove the
> rogue
> AP from the preferred list to get them back on their network.
>
> For the record, the 'Automatically connect to non-preferred networks' is
> not
> checked.
>
> What I've tried: If I stop the WZC service after the computer boots up,
> that
> prevents the 'view available' functionality, which is good and allows for
> continued use on their wireless network, but if I disable the service
> completely, wireless networking does not work at all upon reboot.
>
> How can I make XP only work with just one access point?
>