Spreading users across multiple AP's

Hi
I have a requirement to provide Wireless to over 250 people in one big arena. I am thinking of using an Lwapp install but was wondering how will I force users to associate evenly across all access points. I want to avoid the situation whereby 30 associate with AP1 and 5 associate with AP2
Any help would be appreciated

Hi Martin,
Hope so everything's fine at your end.
Typically Ap1200's or LWAPP AP's manage load balancing internally on their own using the Auto-RF features if you are using some 4000 series controllers dunno about others. So this auto-rf features should equally load balance the client across all Ap's, well if that doesn't happen for som e reason then, you may change the configuration to do that.
You may create seperate wlans to be broadcasted through different lwapps with seperate ssid's.
For example,
AP1200-1 broadcasts wlan 1 connecting around 35 clients
AP1200-2 broadcasts wlan 2 connecting another set of 35 or more.. and so on.
AP1200-3 broadcasts wlan 1 again but is at a distance of say more than 100 feet or so connecting another set of 35 or more.. and so on.
Please feel free to contact me if you need any more assistance.
Thanks & Regards,
Karthik Narasimhan

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Step 3:
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1. Uses the "Finder" action "Get Specified Finder Items"
1a. The user's "~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music" folder
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Overview:
Here we:
1. Enabled iTunes sharing in the user accounts on the host machine, in effect allowing all users of the machine to view a single iTunes library.
2. (Optional) I have created a login application that will remove any content that has been added to user iTunes libraries, this in effect stops other users of the machine from adding music and files to iTunes.
Step 4:
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Summary:
We have shared a single iTunes library across multiple user account, while still allowing for network sharing. This method is designed to save space on machines, particularly those with smaller hard drives.
I hope that this hint proves to be helpful and I hope everybody will give me feedback on my process.
regards,
Pete.
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Léonie

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[http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/features/articles/kerberos_s10.jsp] sol + ldap+ AD
[http://docs.lucidinteractive.ca/index.php/Solaris_LDAP_client_with_OpenLDAP_server] sol + ldap (openldap)
[http://aput.net/~jheiss/krbldap/howto.html] sol + ldap + krb5
now these links are all using some diff means, however they should give you some ideas as to whats out there. sol 10 comes with suns ldap server and you can use the krb5 server which comes with it as well. many many diff ways to do this. many many more links out there as welll. these are just a few.

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