Initiate Wireless Connection Before Logon

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In my wireless environment, I use WPA RADIUS. My client machines are
Windows XP which belong to a domain on a Win2003 machine. That Win2003
server runs IAS which is a RADIUS server. Part of my wireless access policy
specifies users and machines that can authenticate to the wireless network.
When my XP machine boots and prior to login, I see a successful
authentication request logged for my machine. I have not actually verified
that I can access my XP machine across the network, but I am assuming that I
can. Once I log in, I see another successful authentication request for my
user.

Jeff

"Derek Johnson" <DerekJohnson@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:BBF90050-BDC3-45B3-88DB-83FDB794967B@microsoft.com...
> Is there a way to use logon credentials of a generic (manually specified)
> account to establish the wireless connection before a user logs into a
> domain?