We have had several instances of this message recently when users are attempting to connect to their wireless LAN in Microsoft Windows Vista: “Your network Administrator has blocked you from connecting to this network”
We have not yet found the cause of this. We will update this post when we do. Please add a comment if you have further informaion.
Well here is the important part, the fix. You can use the Network Services shell to unblock the restriction.
- Click Start -> All Programs -> Accessories.
- Right-click Command Prompt , and then click Run as administrator . If you are prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type your password or click Continue
- At the command prompt, type (or copy and paste. You can paste in the Command Prompt using a right-click) the following command, and then press ENTER:
netsh wlan delete filter permission=denyall networktype=infrastructure
netsh wlan delete filter permission=denyall networktype=adhoc
You can find additional details on the netsh wlan command here. Here is an exerpt from the documentation relating to the netsh wlan delete filter.
delete filter
Removes a wireless network from the wireless allowed or blocked list
| Syntax: | delete filter permission={allow|block| denyall} ssid=WirelessNetworkNamenetworktype={ infrastructure|adhoc} | |||
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| Remarks: | The ssid parameter is required, unless the value of the permission parameter is denyall. Then the ssid parameter should not be given. | |||
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