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Best way to deploy WPA wifi settings

  • July 30, 2012
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Hi, What is the best way to connect laptops to a WPA wifi environment? Kinda new to JSS so any step by step would be helpful. Thank you

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  • July 30, 2012

For 10.7 & up clients Configuration Profiles would be the best way to go about this. Under Management - Configuration Profiles


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  • July 30, 2012

Thank you. How do I deploy that Configuration profile?


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  • July 30, 2012

Never mind I think I see the answer, Scope is the way to do it.


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  • May 16, 2013

I am trying to do this as well. It connects to the correct SSID, but it is not passing the username and password. It prompts the user for it at the first logon.


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  • August 5, 2013

How do we go about doing this for 10.6? Is there a script I could use?
I came across #/usr/sbin/networksetup -addpreferredwirelessnetworkatindex en1 "SSID" 0 wpa "password" and it works when I try it at home but in the campus it doesnt. We have a WPA2 Enterprise setup. Any mods on the script to include the username field as well?


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  • August 5, 2013

AFP548 has a good write-up on ways to enable WiFi using a script:

http://www.afp548.com/2013/03/06/automatically-enable-wifi-at-login-window/

There is a follow-up article on how to do it with a profile:

http://www.afp548.com/2013/03/07/another-way-to-enable-wi-fi-at-login-window-with-profiles/


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  • January 30, 2014

thanks for that link, rtrouton. i've been meaning to implement a system wifi profile on some of our machines for, oh, A WHILE. success!