Time-Based Logon Rights; Example 4, Wired Interface - SMC Networks ELITECONNECT SMC2502W User Manual

First, if the location is not valid, then the location falls back to Everywhere Else. This
is another example of the system trying its best to make sure that a client always
gets some sort of rights package, rather than no rights at all.
If the group is not valid when the rights are being generated, then the group falls
off the Final Group Expire list, and those rights are not handed out.
This is mostly straightforward, however, the Admin can box themselves in a
corner.
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Time-Based Logon Rights

Every location has a Logon group. Users and Guests need the Logon group in
order to get started. If there is no User/Guest access allowed at a location, then the
system defaults to Logon rights for that location.
The above statements make it in general a bad idea to hand out logon rights based
on time. This is the one case where a client could potentially end up receiving no
rights at all rather than some kind of Logon rights. So why is no rights at all such
a bad thing? No rights at all translates at the WLAN Access Manager to
NAT = true, and no other traffic allowed. But they can't use DHCP since no traffic
at all is allowed. They won't be able to get a logon page, or an error page, or
anything.
In short, you are guaranteed to receive some sort of support call claiming the
network is broken, and then we will probably receive some support call claiming
the product is broken. So don't do this unless you really mean it.
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Example 4, Wired Interface

Another typical need is to connect up users to a wired network, and run that
through the WLAN Access Manager. Thus, your wired users connect up to the
network, and are granted rights of some sort. However, in general you don't want
these wired users to have to logon via the web logon page.
To automatically authenticate your wired users:
• this location would need to point to the Where that has the port to which the
wired users connect.
• this location will not have User or Guest groups.
Instead, this location points to a Logon group, which rather than receiving Logon
rights that redirect it to the logon page, it receives user rights.
To create a Logon group that allocates user-type rights:
Step 1.
Select the group User from the Group Manager.
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