Thread: Creating profiles and connecting to a Wireless LAN

Now we have seen that some possible uses for netsh wlan, then let me show you that, on a real Windows Vista machine, how to perform these commands in computer to do certain tasks.

For viewing all the options for netsh wlan command, then simply type netsh wlan command without any options in the computer

And you will see the following:



If you want to get connect then you will fist have to create a profile on it. As the profile is created it will works as an existing profile file that you have already been saved, then you first need to create the file and save the XML file.

When you are working on a Vista machine that is been already working with wireless network, you can run the following command on the computer:

netsh wlan export profile name="BOW" folder=C:\Users\David\wlan interface="Wireless Network Connection"

After doing the above you will get to create a file named as

• Wireless Network Connection-BOW.xml

• In your folder C:\Users\David\wlan

You can then import the above done file into your system which you want to add to the profile on and then connect it to the wireless network.

If you want to create a profile to connect to the WLAN on the new machine, then you can do the following:

C:\Users\David\wlan> netsh wlan add profile filename="Wireless Network Connection-BOW.xml"

(assuming I changed directory into the “wlan” folder)

Otherwise, you can also add this profile which is been made to only a certain wireless interface or for certain users also.

As you add the profile, you would be able to verify that it is there with:

netsh wlan show profiles as down below

command.

You can also see the settings for those profiles with the following:

netsh wlan show settings

Once you know that you have a profile and can be used to connect to it like this:

netsh wlan connect ssid=”mySSID” name=”WLAN-Profil1”

(Assuming that the profile did not specifically did the auto-connection)

As you can see, we are connected to the wireless network in the below fugure.