"Giles Wendes" wrote:

> I work for a school with Aruba wireless access points installed. From time to
> time the wireless notebooks we use are unable to log in to the domain
> (ACADEMIC) and return the error : 'Domain ACADEMIC is not available'
>
> If I log in as an administrator or onto the local machine there is no
> problem and the wireless connection is established successfully once logged
> in. I have installed the latest firmware and driver for the notebooks and the
> problem remains.
>
> The problem is, albeit temporarily, resolved if I remove the notebook from
> the domain and then reattach it. This can be done wirelessly or over a wired
> connection. Currently we have half our notebooks unable to connect and it is
> obviously a great deal of work to go through each computer and reattach. Is
> there a solution or a better way?

"ITServiceDesk" wrote:

> Have seen similar issues to this (can't guarantee they are the same). With
> wireless notebooks there is a delay before the wireless connection works.
> Basically if you boot up the laptop and try to log in straight away as a user
> then you won't be able to. If you wait at least 2/3 minutes at the login
> screen stage before actually logging in then they work (or they did for us).
>
> If you log in as local administrator then that gives the notebook time to
> find the wireless connection before logging out and logging back in as a user.
> If you have previosuly logged into the domain with the administrator account
> then you may be logging in with cached credentials and again this gives time
> to establish the connection before you log in as a user.
>
> This happens whenever a user logs in for the first time from that particular
> notebook.
>
> If this is the same type of symptom you are getting then the users just need
> to be educated.
>
> Regards
>
> "Giles Wendes" wrote:
>
> > I work for a school with Aruba wireless access points installed. From time to
> > time the wireless notebooks we use are unable to log in to the domain
> > (ACADEMIC) and return the error : 'Domain ACADEMIC is not available'
> >
> > If I log in as an administrator or onto the local machine there is no
> > problem and the wireless connection is established successfully once logged
> > in. I have installed the latest firmware and driver for the notebooks and the
> > problem remains.
> >
> > The problem is, albeit temporarily, resolved if I remove the notebook from
> > the domain and then reattach it. This can be done wirelessly or over a wired
> > connection. Currently we have half our notebooks unable to connect and it is
> > obviously a great deal of work to go through each computer and reattach. Is
> > there a solution or a better way?