Radius-based windows authentication

[Mike Perdide]

> Phil Mayers wrote:
>>> Is the windows machine a domain member?
>> No it's not. Only the users are.
> ?

> When you sit at the login screen, and press ctrl+alt+del, are you
> logging in with a username and password which is checked against the
> domain controllers?
> If so, then the machine *is* joined into the domain.
You're right, it is, I am not familiar with the windows domains.

> >>      * machine validates credentials to the domain controller, over the
> >> current network connection
> >
 How did the machine obtain network connection ? It has to go throught 
freeradius authorization, hasn't it ?