Exporting A Profile; Denying Access To Non-Administrative Users - Cisco Aironet Installation And Configuration Manual

Denying Access to Non-Administrative Users

Step 4 Find the directory where the profile is located.
Step 5 Click the profile so it appears in the File name box at the bottom of the Import Profile screen.
Step 6 Click Open. The imported profile appears in the list of profiles on the Profile Manager screen.

Exporting a Profile

Insert a blank floppy disk into your computer's floppy drive, if you wish to export a profile to a floppy
Step 1
disk.
Open ACU; click the Profile Manager icon or select Profile Manager from the Commands drop-down
Step 2
menu. The Profile Manager screen appears (see
From the Profile Management drop-down box, select the profile that you want to export.
Step 3
Click Export. The Save Profile As screen appears. The default filename is ProfileName.pro, where
Step 4
ProfileName is the name of the selected profile, and the default directory is the directory in which ACU
was installed.
If you want to change the profile name, enter a new name in the File name edit box.
Step 5
Step 6 Select a different directory (for example, your computer's floppy disk drive or a location on the network)
from the Save in drop-down box.
Click Save. The profile is exported to the specified location.
Step 7
Step 8 Follow the instructions in the

Denying Access to Non-Administrative Users

By default, ACU allows regular-class users to modify and save profiles to the registry. However, if you
have administrative rights, you can prevent regular-class users from saving profiles on computers
running Windows NT, 2000, or XP. (This option is not available for Windows 95, 98, and Me because
these versions of Windows do not support different classes of users.)
Note You were able to grant or deny access to non-administrative users during ACU installation. If you
chose to deny access then, you can follow the steps below to change your decision.
Follow the steps below if you wish to prevent users without administrative rights from modifying and
saving profiles (or to allow regular-class users to save profiles if permission was denied previously).
Open ACU by double-clicking the Aironet Client Utility (ACU) icon on your desktop.
Step 1
Click the Preferences icon or select Preferences from the Options drop-down menu. The Aironet Client
Step 2
Utility Preferences screen appears (see
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Figure 4-1).
"Importing a Profile" section to import the profile on another computer.
Figure 4-3).
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