how to block access to ad-hoc networks?

Hi! We have a school situation where students take their laptops home, and
participate in peer-to-peer networking, mostly for games. When they come
back, the network is littered with ad-hoc network advertizing. This disrupts
wireless operations. On XP it was possible to right-click on the wireless
goodjie on the taskbar, and go into advanced properties, and tell the
computer to ignore ad-hoc networks, accepting only WAPs.

I can't find this setting in Vista. I'm sure it's somewhere, but Vista has
moved eveything around and I get lost. Nothing comes up in the help, or on
the Windows Vista KB.

Can someone tell me how to get to where I can change this setting in Vista?

Thanks

Gregg

Hello Gregg,

If you haven't already, try using the netsh command for wireless networks.

For more details, please see:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/w.../aa905085.aspx

--
Eric Cross
Microsoft MVP (Windows Networking)
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com

"Gregg Shepherd" <GreggShepherd@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:04F3D62E-ED9E-40B1-9C7A-3E4622F8747D@microsoft.com...
> Hi! We have a school situation where students take their laptops home,
> and
> participate in peer-to-peer networking, mostly for games. When they come
> back, the network is littered with ad-hoc network advertizing. This
> disrupts
> wireless operations. On XP it was possible to right-click on the wireless
> goodjie on the taskbar, and go into advanced properties, and tell the
> computer to ignore ad-hoc networks, accepting only WAPs.
>
> I can't find this setting in Vista. I'm sure it's somewhere, but Vista
> has
> moved eveything around and I get lost. Nothing comes up in the help, or
> on
> the Windows Vista KB.
>
> Can someone tell me how to get to where I can change this setting in
> Vista?
>
> Thanks
>
> Gregg

Dear Mr. Cross,

Forgive me for complaining, but this is only marginally helpful. In XP
there was a simple set of radio buttons, to select "ad-hoc only",
"infrastructure only", or "don't care". I'm sure this command line utiity
works, but it is a step backward from the simple interface under XP. Is that
totally gone now?

g

"Eric Cross [MVP]" wrote:

> Hello Gregg,
>
> If you haven't already, try using the netsh command for wireless networks.
>
> For more details, please see:
> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/w.../aa905085.aspx
>
> --
> Eric Cross
> Microsoft MVP (Windows Networking)
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
>
> "Gregg Shepherd" <GreggShepherd@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:04F3D62E-ED9E-40B1-9C7A-3E4622F8747D@microsoft.com...
> > Hi! We have a school situation where students take their laptops home,
> > and
> > participate in peer-to-peer networking, mostly for games. When they come
> > back, the network is littered with ad-hoc network advertizing. This
> > disrupts
> > wireless operations. On XP it was possible to right-click on the wireless
> > goodjie on the taskbar, and go into advanced properties, and tell the
> > computer to ignore ad-hoc networks, accepting only WAPs.
> >
> > I can't find this setting in Vista. I'm sure it's somewhere, but Vista
> > has
> > moved eveything around and I get lost. Nothing comes up in the help, or
> > on
> > the Windows Vista KB.
> >
> > Can someone tell me how to get to where I can change this setting in
> > Vista?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Gregg
>
>