Thursday, April 28, 2011

OBIEE Making your laptop available for Wi-Fi

If you want to do a demo for customer showing the mobile capabilities for OBIEE you need a Wi-Fi access point. Since most organisations don’t allow ‘experiments’ on there Wi-Fi here is how you can set up an Windows 7 laptop as a Wi-Fi gateway.

Open a command line box on your laptop and enter:

netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow ssid=ObiLaptopWireLess key=OBIEE123

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Open the network centre and look for the new entry

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It’s probably called something like ‘Wireless Network Connection 2’

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Open the connection and select the Sharing tab on the incomming connection:

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Select a Network to use for the connection:

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On the networking tab select only the IPv4 protocol:

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Open a command box to start the network:

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netsh wlan start hostednetwork

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Change the name to something meaningful:

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Till Next Time

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Works great John,
What is the next step to connect to a local webserver on the laptop with, for instance an android phone or Ipad?
Thanks
Michiel

John Minkjan said...

Hi Michiel,

The same way you connect it to a normal WiFi

Regards

John