Re: Allowing Student Laptops to Connect to School Network

[Mark Poepping <poepping () CMU EDU>]

Lots of people provide network access, but there's little consistency and no
clearinghouse of solutions (yet), access to domain-based services are a
separate story.

For the former, you might start with:
http://security.internet2.edu/netauth
especially the "Strategies for Automating Network Policy Enforcement" document
(link toward the bottom of the page).

For the latter, you might consider participating with:
http://www.windows-hied.org/



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> [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Michelle Mueller
> Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 3:16 PM
> To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
> Subject: [SECURITY] Allowing Student Laptops to Connect to School Network
>
> We've been asked to come up with a proprosal for allowing students to
> bring their personal laptops on campus and connect to our network.  At
> best we're looking at simply Internet access.  At worst we're looking at
> access to their network drive, printing, and wireless access.  Currently,
> students need to log into a Microsoft domain on a school computer to get
> their network drive, Internet access, and to print.
>
> Do any of you have to provide Internet and/or network access to your
> students personal computers?  How did you go about this?  What security
> issues have you encountered?
>
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