microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin

Jonathan @ isa wrote:
> Hello and good day.
>
> I have several laptops for my organization that I need to set ad hoc
> on wireless connection properties to never be an option, ie disabled,
> greyed out etc. The Laptops are windows xp SP2. We are not using
> Active Directory, instead samba on our network. I was able to get
> GPMC.msc installed, however I am unable to use the group policy
> object editor to setup a wireless policy without Active Directory. I
> have foud through gpedit.msc the following snap in;" Local Computer
> Policy/User Configuration/Administrative Templates/Windows Componets
> /Microsoft Management Console/Restricted/Permitted snap-ins/Group
> Policy/Group Policy snap-in extensions/Wireless Networ (IEEE 802.11)
> Policies. I have enabled it but am unable to set a policy using it.
>
> Does anyone know a work around to set local policy for xp not using
> Active Directory. Or at the least reg key for disabling AD HOC option
> for wireless connections?
>
> Any assistance would be appreciated.
>
> Sincerely,
> jonathan k



I believe what you're looking at is a group policy (hence AD) thing only.
You might try posting in microsoft.public.windows.networking.wireless - but
I'm not sure you can do this via policy, etc, without AD, sorry.