[OSX-Users] Re: eduroam

[Colin Williams]

Jon,

There were some problems with the soton authentication server yesterday, and since the ECS one relies on this to pass on any external authentication, there would have been problems with either soton or ECS credentials.

However, things should be working reasonably well today.


Colin Williams
crw104 at ecs.soton.ac.uk



On 6 Jul 2011, at 13:37, Jonathon Hare wrote:

> I'm currently using it in Hannover with my ECS credentials. Was rather flaky at times yesterday though...
> 
> 
> Jon
> 
> On 6 Jul 2011, at 14:34, Les A Carr wrote:
> 
>> I have to say that I was astonished to walk into a couple of european
>> universities (Koblenz, Geneva) in the last month and find that my laptop
>> was automatically on the network thanks to eduroam!
>> --
>> Les
>> 
>> 
>> On 06/07/2011 13:31, "Tim Chown" <tjc at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>> 
>>> I would recommend using your 'central' credentials, certainly when
>>> roaming elsewhere.
>>> 
>>> The ECS and University eduroam deployments are being refreshed/epxanded
>>> this summer.
>>> 
>>> It's somewhat embarrassing that we're one of the 'inventors' of eduroam,
>>> and yet we don't have a service because iSolutions have never prioritised
>>> widescale wireless coverage.
>>> 
>>> Tim
>>> 
>>> On 6 Jul 2011, at 12:56, Marcus Cobden wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Both of these will work:
>>>> 
>>>> * your ECS username at ecs.soton... and your ECS wireless password
>>>> or
>>>> * your Soton username at soton.ac... and your iSolutions password.
>>>> 
>>>> ECS's servers have been flakey lately, but I understand there is
>>>> currently work going on to improve the stability of this authentication.
>>>> 
>>>> On 6 Jul 2011, at 12:52, mc schraefel wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Really? It's what I'm using right now. Maybe it's a fluke
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Sent from my iPod
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 6 Jul 2011, at 12:42, Vladimiro Sassone <vs at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 6 Jul 2011, at 12:27, mc schraefel wrote:
>>>>>>> Should just be your iss login and password
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> not necessarily, for me it's not so...
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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