Using AD exclusively to authenticate over WPA

dhopper82 · ‎02-09-2010

This is more of a curiousity question than anything. Is there a way to bypass ACS and authenticate wireless clients using AD? We run a WLC 4400 with version 4.2.207.0 and I was just wondering.

dancampb · ‎02-09-2010

You could do this through LDAP

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6366/products_configuration_example09186a008093f1b9.shtml

nathan.a.reeves · ‎02-24-2010

You could use IAS (Server 2003) / NPS (Server 2008) on the windows server to auth users. These are j the inbuilt radius services provided in the windows install natively.

Leo Laohoo · ‎02-24-2010

I can't speak for WLC firmware 4.X but we've used 5.X and 6.X. We told the ACS to pass all authentication to the AD. No issues there.