Login to school wired network from personal netbook? - Hardware & Software

Like most schools, our school has XP Pro on the computers. My personal netbook runs Windows 7 Starter. Can I somehow login onto the wired network with the account given by my school with my netbook if I rip the Ethernet cable from a school PC and plugin into my netbook?

You could ask your school tech to add your laptop to a group or similar, otherwise no.

You could probably use the internet.

1) I can already use the wired connection to connect to Internet. 2) I want to be able to view my personal folders on the shared network drive that all students have a folder on. 3) The problem is, when on a school PC you logon, you have username, password and then you have the little dropdown box to logon to either a local account or a network account. On my netbook, I have no such dropdown box so I can only logon to a local account.

I haven't tried it on 7, but on XP if you had the welcome screen you could press ctrl alt del twice to get to the standard login screen.

You'll have to join your netbook to the domain. Unfortunately this is only supported in Pro editions and above.

I'm in a similar case, i have both ubuntu 9.10 and win7 HP. I know the school's login domain, and LAN proxies. but can't get access, and should i mention the school computers use win2k

It depends. Some schools have whitelists that check for specific MAC addresses and blacklist everything else. If this is so, you will have to spoof the MAC address from an unused computer.

In the case of my college, the network switch will only accept known computers on the network. If someone plugged their laptop into the Ethernet, the switch will block it.

The school I worked at wouldn't join anyone's laptop to the domain. We didn't have a problem with it since it was a pretty small school with only a handful of computer literate people but DA GOV'T wouldn't let us.

[QUOTE=UberMensch;19995219]You'll have to join your netbook to the domain. Unfortunately this is only supported in Pro editions and above.[/QUOTE] Oh cock. And Windows anytime upgrade isn't release in fucking Finland, goddamn it.

[QUOTE=dagoth_ur;19995279]I'm in a similar case, i have both ubuntu 9.10 and win7 HP. I know the school's login domain, and LAN proxies. but can't get access, and should i mention the school computers use win2k[/QUOTE] You need an domain administrators account to add a system to a domain so unless you manage to somehow get ahold of a network admin's username and password you have little hope. You will find that directly connecting to the network through ethernet may do a couple of things; it may do nothing if the network blocks out connections (i.e. through MAC whitelisting/blacklisting as Master117 said), you will be able to get the internet but no network files (I believe this is because the internet connection isn't being routed through any sort of hardware so you get a line straight to the net, I'm probably wrong about how this works though).

[QUOTE=Wickedgenius;19999310]You need an domain administrators account to add a system to a domain so unless you manage to somehow get ahold of a network admin's username and password you have little hope. You will find that directly connecting to the network through ethernet may do a couple of things; it may do nothing if the network blocks out connections (i.e. through MAC whitelisting/blacklisting as Master117 said), you will be able to get the internet but no network files (I believe this is because the internet connection isn't being routed through any sort of hardware so you get a line straight to the net, I'm probably wrong about how this works though).[/QUOTE] When you get to the Internet but no network files, it just means you haven't connected to the domain, which is exactly my case.

it's a case of wired I can't access anything on from my laptop and they have 1 wireless router that doesn't block Internet access but I can't/don't know how to connect to my domain, plus that wirelss network doesn't go far enough, it was placed for use from the staff room