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June 29th, 2020 16:00
Wireless Control by Users
I know that wireless functionality is built-in to the new mobile Dell thin clients (5470's), and that I can access the wireless network settings within the Network Setup area as outlined in the Admin Guide. This is fine except when user takes the laptop offiste on a trip to somewhere like home or a hotel. I don't typically give users administrative permissions, so how are they expected to join the laptop to a different WiFi SSID?
Is there something 9.0 that makes this possible?
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RMontalvo
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July 29th, 2020 14:00
If running Firmware 8.6_xxx, You can add the the following option to your INI file:
Privilege=none HideWlanScan=No EnableNetworkSetup=Yes
Please review the INI Reference Guide for more details.https://topics-cdn.dell.com/pdf/thinos_8_6_ig_en-us.pdf
AGELA
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July 17th, 2020 00:00
Same question here.
How are users expected to connect to their WiFi at home?
MegaJimX
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August 12th, 2020 16:00
I tried changing individual access to user options by altering the INI file and confirmed that the settings show in the WMS INI tab in System Tools. For some reason Network Setup is still grayed out and the user is unable to access those settings. Could there be a conflict between the set privilege level and the other settings? Below are the last few options in the WMS ini. The privilage level is currently set to "low" but I tried setting the privilege level to "none" as well.
EnableNetworkSetup=Yes HideWlanScan=no NoGlobalINI=yes EnableLocal=yes
MegaJimX
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August 13th, 2020 15:00
Thank you. That was the solution. I had forgotten about the ParameterX={yes, no} [Option1={0, 1}] [Option2={1, 2, 3, 4}] formatting as I hadn't written an INI file in over a year. So "Privilege" is the parameter and "HideWlanScan" and "EnableNetworkSetup" are the options and should all go directly after the parameter.
I appreciate the help.