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15-11Lesson 1 Configuring Local Area Network (LAN) Connections

become unavailable. When authentication is enabled, you can choose from three

types of authentication (referred to as EAP, or Extensible Authentication Protocol):

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Smart Card Or Other Certificate

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MD5-Challenge

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Protected EAP (PEAP)

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Authenticate As Computer When Computer Information Is Available This

option specifies whether the computer attempts authentication within an Active

Directory domain environment when a user is not logged on. This option requires

that a computer account for the computer exists in the domain.

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Authenticate As Guest When User Or Computer Information Is

Unavailable If a user account or computer account does not exist within a

domain, this option allows the computer to attempt authentication as a guest. If

you authenticate as a guest, the network infrastructure might limit the number of

computers on the network that you can communicate with.

Note The Advanced tab of the of the Local Area Connection Properties dialog box allows you to configure Windows Firewall and ICS. These options are the focus of Lesson 4, “Configuring Internet Connection Sharing (ICS),” and Lesson 5 “Configuring Windows Firewall.”

The New Connection Wizard

Although it is not hard to configure a network connection in Windows XP Professional

manually, Windows does offer a wizard (the New Connection Wizard) that can per-

form much of the work of configuring a network connection for different uses. Under-

standing the options found in this wizard will help you configure connections

efficiently. You can start the New Connection Wizard from the Network Connections

window by clicking Create A New Connection.

You can configure four types of connections by using the New Connection Wizard:

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Connect To The Internet

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Connect To The Network At My Workplace

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Set Up A Home Or Small Office Network

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Set Up An Advanced Connection

Note This section covers the following options: Connect To The Internet, Connect To The Network At My Workplace, and Set Up An Advanced Connection. Selecting Set Up A Home Or Small Office Network allows you to configure ICS, which is covered in Lesson 4.

Connect To The Internet

To set up an Internet connection, start the New Connection Wizard, and then click

Next to skip the Welcome page. The next page you see is Network Connection Type

(see Figure 15-7).

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Figure 15-7 Use the Network Connection Type page to select the type of network connection to create.

Select Connect To The Internet on the Network Connection Type page and click Next.

The New Connection Wizard displays the Getting Ready page, which has the following

three options:

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Choose From A List Of Internet Service Providers (ISPs)

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Set Up My Connection Manually

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Use The CD I Got From An ISP

Choose From A List Of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) If you select Choose From A

List Of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) on the Getting Ready page, and then click

Next, the New Connection Wizard displays the Completing The New Connection Wiz-

ard page. You can select Get Online With MSN or Select From A List Of Other ISPs.

When you have made your selection, click Finish.

Set Up My Connection Manually If you select Set Up My Connection Manually on the

Getting Ready page, and then click Next, the New Connection Wizard displays the

Internet Connection page. The following three options are available in the Internet

Connection page:

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Connect Using A Dial-Up Modem