Instructions for Microsoft XP

For automatic configuration of your computer, download self-installation package. Simply run this file to make the necessary settings on your computer.

If automatic installation fails, you can follow these instructions to make the entire configuration manually. According to the instructions, you can also check the settings in case of trouble.

First check (or turn), 802.1X authentication for Ethernet interface. Right-click the icon Computer on the desktop or click Computer menu Start . From the context menu select Manage .

A window appears entitled, ​​Manage computer. On the left, select Services and Applications Services. A list of services that are running or can run on your computer. Locate the Wired AutoConfig. Check the status of this service.

If no status “Started” and startup type “Automatic”, set this in the service of the responsibility (click right mouse button context menu and select “Properties”.

Then a window with a list of services to close.

From the Start menu, select Control Panel

Furthermore, the category of Network and Internet

and in this category, click Network Connection

From the list of network interfaces, select the Local Area Connection. If you are unsure about which interface is right, you can help by the time you disconnect the power cord - the right interface should appear cross (cable disconnected), and reconnect the cable cross should disappear. Click the right mouse button to display the context menu from which you select Properties.

Go to the tab Authentication . If this card is not displayed, go to the list of possible causes here. Turn here Allow authentication IEEE 802.1X and as an authentication method, select Microsoft: PEAP . Press Setup next to the authentication method.

For better security, we recommend to fill in here as an authentication server address radius.ujep.cz and as a trusted root certification authority to enable the authority: AddTrust External CA Root . (certificate installation is described here). Turn off the Enable Fast Reconnect. Next press the Configure button.

Uncheck the option Automatically use my username and password …..

Gradually close all dialogs with OK.

If your computer is now connected to ethernet, in the lower right corner of the screen appears warning, that windows need authentication informations

Click on them and to poped up dialog enter your user name and password. As a user name Enter your student's number and your password for eduroam. For more informations about this password, visit Eduroam. Leave Domain field blank.

IEEE 802.1X supplicant in Windows XP is able to save the user name and password and the next is automatically used. This is very convenient, next time you start your computer simply, you do not care about anything and you are automatically connected to the network. But it has two disadvantages: If you do not log on to your computer is password protected, your name will be authenticated by anyone who turns on him. If you have done any iniquity in the network, you will be sniffing you. The second problem concerns the change password - if you change your password, supplicant will continue to provide old and do not connect.

Whether you want or do not want to save your username and password can be set in the properties of a network interface card specifically for the Verification (its opening is described above). Here switch Keep information about the cache for future connection to the network .

Leaving your discretion whether you will benefit automatically save names and passwords. If so, turn it off temporarily when you change your password.