RE: [WinMac] Location manager

John Nurick(jnurick[at]lrconsulting.co.uk)
Fri, 9 Jul 1999 15:48:33 +0100

There's a programme called (IIRC) NetSwitch which I downloaded a while
ago but haven't yet got round to trying it. I can't give you the name
because it's on another machine's disk.
> Christian Raymond [mailto:craymond@algene.com] wrote:

> Is there a way to easilly switch network configuration in
> Windows,

At present, our three Win 95 notebooks are set up with two hardware
profiles, for office and elsewhere. In the office profile, the network
adapter on the multifunction PC card is enabled and the modem disabled,
and vice versa in the other. This means that when booting up in the
office the network adapter is detected and the machine tries to connect
to the network. Elsewhere, the machine doesn't see the network adapter
and users can dial in by double-clicking a desktop icon.

This seems to work (most of the time) even for our most fumblefingered
and least patient user, and gives no one else any trouble.

It won't help if your users access different networks locally and
elsewhere, or have different usernames for local and remote access, or
different dial-up parameters. AFAIK Netswitch is meant to handle that
sort of thing. I don't know whether it can also cope with differing
internet options (e.g. network: use lan and proxy server; elsewhere use
modem) and so on.

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