Ruckus Wireless Setup with Windows 2008 NPS
The wireless project requires domain users (staffs) using domain joined notebooks, non-domain (workgroup) notebooks and mobile devices to be authenticated to use the wireless. I will not be going into the detailed Ruckus wireless setup and will be concentrating on the NPS setup along with the client’s configuration. The biggest challenge was authenticating the non-domain notebook/laptops. Unix/Linux OS based and mobile devices didn’t have much issue in the authentication process as these clients have the option to ignore the certificate whereas windows based OS (tested on Vista and 7) throws errors like “windows was unable to verify the identity of the server”. Here is the Ruckus Wireless snapshot detail of the SSID “Staff” which I have used for the project. It’s using 802.1 x EAP authentication method with WPA2 encryption and AES algorithm. The Active Director Directory Services (AD DS) and Active Directory Certificate Service (AD CS) are on two separate machines running ...