"jaez" <jaez(nospam)@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
news:8WzVd.435$kh2.185@newsfe5-gui.ntli.net...
> In our office we have a Peer-to-Peer network linking 3 XP desktop machines
> and 4 XP laptops using wireless lan
>
> We have a single Linksys WAP54 access point and all works fine.
>
> If a colleagues arrives from another office we have to configure their
> laptop each time they visit to see the webpages we have on our intranet
>
> In Hotels, with hot spots, when I start my laptop it seems to pick up an
IP
> address and also
> configures IE  with proxy settings and the hotels home page appears as the
> default page.
>
> How can I do this so anyone arriving in the offices connects automtically
to
> our intranet homepage reverting to theirs when they return to their own
> base?
>
> Jaez

> It looks like you are looking for a "WIFI Gateway".
>
> Check out "ZoneCD".   Upon client connects, it will re-direct their first
> HTTP attempt to a local intranet page -- from which you can either use as
a
> "splash screen" or do logins.  Even so, it also allows you to do all sorts
> of logging.
>
> Great program, I have been using it myself now.  It runs completetly off a
> "live" CD, so doesn't require to be installed to a HDD.  Got an old
> computer?  Just toss the CD into the drive, and boot up.  It'll turn that
> old computer into a "WIFI gateway box".  All the computer with "ZoneCD"
> running will need is just a CD drive (obviously) and two NIC cards.  After
> configuring, it no longer even needs a monitor, keyboard, mouse.
>
> "ZoneCD"creates an entire new subnet (10.10.x.,y) to be used for clients
> connecting to the internet.  They pass onto your main 192.168.x.y network
> through "ZoneCD", thus allowing this type of control over clients.
"ZoneCD"
> also does all it's own DHCP.
>
> Very cool program.
>
> Oh, by the way, did I mention it's price?  Its completetly free.  It will
> only cost you a CD-R to burn it onto.  Its also free as in open source
> (i.e., GNU Licensed).  Its Linux based, but you need not know Linux to use
> it.
>
> You will have to re-arrange your network somewhat to get it up and going,
> but once up it works great.
>
> For a clear picture of the network topolology of how it comes into play,
> check out:
> http://www.publicip.net/zonecd/how.php
>
> Note: when I first tried out "ZoneCD", I only had one router -- my
wireless
> gateway router/AP.  As you can see from the diagram, another router is
> needed.  I was able to successfully get it working by using a PC with two
> NIC's and using ICS as the "WAN Router".  This will work just fine, if you
> don't want to get another router.  I've since purchased a wired ethernet
> router to function as the WAN router as I didn't want to to do the ICS
thing
> since it requires that PC to always be active for the network to remain
> alive.  Getting a wired router just reduced some clutter and made
everything
> much more convienent.
>
> Cheers,
> -Eric